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Steam games market estimated at $3.5B in 2015
The market for paid games on Steam is estimated have been worth $3.5B last year. Steam Spy, the independent sales and stats tracker, has revealed some interesting data about the number of copies sold as well as revenue 2015 Steam games have made. Steam Spy’s latest report reveals that paid games market, which doesn’t include free-to-play or DLCs, was worth $3.5 billion. A total number ...read more
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Rise of the Tomb Raider release date confirmed for PC
Square Enix has finally confirmed the PC release date for Rise of the Tomb Raider, and has announced a Collector’s Edition as well. The game will be released on both Windows 10 and Steam with 4K resolution support on January 28. A digital download version will be made available through Steam, the Windows Store, Amazon and the Square Enix e-store. A physical version will be released at ...read more
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Valve permanently bans Counter-Strike players involved in match-fixing
Valve has said it will terminate its relationship with individuals who are found to “demonstrate a willingness” to sully the integrity of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive eSports scene. According to a post on the official CS:GO blog, Valve stated the it will “take whatever action necessary” to protect the integrity and “entertainment value” of professional matches.
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Steam reaches new concurrent user record
Yesterday, Steam averaged a peak of over 12 million concurrent users. At roughly 8pm GMT, on Sunday, January 3, the number of concurrent users on Steam reached 12,332,504 – a new record for the PC’s foremost digital marketplace. This is the highest so far for Steam, which broke the 10M record in June of last year. The record number was achieved in the last day of Steam’s big winter ...read more
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Garry's Mod sells over 10 million copies
Those Steam Sale things seem to work pretty well, then. Garry's Mod has enjoyed quite a bit of renewed interest over Steam's Winter Sale, sitting on the front page and selling for £1.74, pushing it over 10 million units sold. Garry Newman revealed the latest milestone over Twitter:
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Killer Instinct Season 3 PC Confirmed, Windows 10 Exclusive
Killer Instinct Season 3 has been confirmed to release in March 2016 on PC. It will be a Windows 10 exclusive so if you are still running Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1, you will have to upgrade to Windows 10 to play the game, just like with Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. This news was revealed in an interview of the developers in a Twitch stream. Killer Instinct Season 3 creative director Adam ...read more
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Valve Finally Explains and Apologizes for Christmas Steam Incident
It has been nearly five days since Steam users’ personal information was revealed to random, unauthorized viewers due to a caching incident on Steam. And while the problem is long since fixed, the Steam community has been demanding an explanation and an apology. As they mentioned in their earlier explanation, the breach had to deal with a caching issue on Valve’s end but was largely due to ...read more
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Rise of the Tomb Raider PC Listed for January 2016 on Steam
More evidence has begun surfacing that Crystal Dynamics’ Rise of the Tomb Raider will be releasing in January 2016. After Amazon France listed the game as releasing next month, it’s now Steam which has it listed for the same month (courtesy of NeoGAF). There isn’t a specific date given aside from January 2016. Thus far, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics haven’t confirmed when the PC ...read more
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Steam continues to face intermittent issues
Steam hasn't had the easiest of times as of late. Just a few days ago Steam experienced one of its biggest user privacy debacles, in which users could see the information of other users, just by visiting its community websites and store, following a misconfiguration with its caching systems. Shortly before the caching problems arose, Steam also faced an outage which prevented users from ...read more
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Steam Is Going Haywire, People Can Access Others' Accounts
There we were, feeling smug in our PC slippers that Sony were having trouble authenticating new PlayStation accounts this Christmas Day, and Steam goes nutso-crazy. And in a really serious way. As Kotaku reports on this merry eve, people are logging into Steam to discover they have access to someone else’s account. Full access, letting them see email addresses, personal details, and most of ...read more
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