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Valve announced yesterday games that use blockchain technology or allow s to purchase or transfer NFTs won't be allowed on Steam. This was revealed when Valve added a new rule to their "What you shouldn't publish on Steam" list. The list specifically says: Applications built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange of cryptocurrencies or NFTs. While there aren't [...]
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Valve has just rolled out a new Steam Client beta build that greatly improves the s page UI and introduces a welcome addition to the platform – a built-in storage manager. According to PCGamer, the new feature lets s see which games are installed on what drives and allows them to easily move installed games between drives. Not that the [...]
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The Steam Lunar New Year Sale is now well underway in Valve’s popular digital game distribution platform. PC gamers can now save on thousands of discounted titles from now until February 15 at 10 am PST. Popular MMOs on sale include Elder Scrolls Online, Monster Hunter World, No Man’s Sky, Rust, Sea of Thieves, Squad, Star Wars: Squadrons, Tom Clancy’s [...]
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Steam has broken its own record for the highest number of concurrent s over the weekend. Online s peaked at 25,418,674 on January 3rd suring all-time highs set in March last year at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Steam usually sees a surge in concurrency during their annual Winter Sale. The global pandemic along with the recent release [...]
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Steam has revealed their Best of 2020 list which ranks games according to several tier-based categories including Top Sellers, New Releases, Best of VR, Early Access Grads, and Controller Games which are based on gross revenue, and Most Played that includes games that reached over 200,000 peak concurrency. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Cyberpunk 2077, DOTA 2, and Grand Theft Auto V [...]
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Winter is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere and so is the annual Steam Winter Sale, the biggest seasonal promo event of the year on Valve’s digital game distribution platform. Get huge discounts on a huge variety of games across all genres from now until January 5th at 10am PT. Notable MMOs on sale include: the Arma franchise, Fall [...]
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2020 may have thrown a number of unexpected events at us but if there’s one thing we can rely on, it’s the annual Steam seasonal sales. The Autumn Sale is now live just in time for Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday and will run until December 1st at 10am PST. This year’s Autumn Sale offers incredible discounts on some [...]
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Valve is currently working on a new Steam tool called Steam Playtest that’s designed to make it easier for developers to playtest in-development games. With the new tool, developers will be able to invite players to test their games without having to manage a mailing list or give out keys. Developers will also have full control on when testing will [...]
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Starting the week off with COVID-19 news as per yoozh. Steam concurrent player numbers hit an all-time high this weekend at over 20 million players thanks to the quarantines currently in effect all over the world. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive also reached record-breaking numbers at one million concurrent players, the shooter’s highest player concurrency since it launched seven years ago. Other [...]
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Get your wallets out because Valve’s annual Steam Winter Sale is now live along with a winter-themed minigame. This year Valve is granting as much as 75% discount on popular game franchises including Call of Duty, Dragon Ball, Fallout, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Saints Row, The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher, and more. A whole host of MMOs are also on [...]
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