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Steam top ten sellers chart: January 20-26

Valve has revealed the top ten selling titles for the past week on Steam. While pre-orders for Skyrim’s Dragonborn DLC made a strong charge up the list, it was chart regular Chivalry: Medieval Warfare that grabbed the top spot. The indie medieval affair was boosted by a 50 per cent …

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Minecraft hits 20m sales across all platforms

The seemingly unending sales onslaught of Minecraft has brought the title to another major milestone. The indie sandbox block-builder blockbuster has surpassed 20m units sold across its four available platforms, according to Mojang’s Jens Bergensten via Twitter. The company went on to reveal some key numbers for last year, announcing …

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Steam top ten sellers chart: January 13-19

Valve has revealed last week’s top selling products on Steam, with some new blood making it onto various parts of the list (including at the top). Just launched sim title Euro Truck Simulator 2 makes a nice debut on Valve’s chart by taking the top spot in its first week …

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Valve launches community-powered Steam Guides

Valve has announced the official release of Steam Guides, a player-driven catalog of tips and walkthrough references available for all to peruse. Introduced last month in beta, Steam Guides already boasts nearly 1,500 individual references. Each one created by the players, for the players. "Players may easily create guides through …

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Valve reveals new Greenlight selections for Steam

Valve has given the greenlight for ten new indie titles to make their way onto the Steam platform, including a few names we’ve heard before. American McGee’s current Kickstarter effort Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is part of the batch, and Replay Games has the go ahead to release its Leisure Suit …

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IDC predicts game disc revenue will "rise substantively" in 2014

The next-generation of consoles will be a huge commercial success according to a new report from the International Data Corporation. A new report entitled Worldwide Video Game and Entertainment Console Hardware and Packaged Software 2012-2016 Forecast reckons that the new offerings from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft will stand largely unchallenged …

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Piston is ‘a’ Steam Box, not ‘the’ Steam Box

Yesterday’s reveal of the long-awaited Steam Box wasn’t quite what it seemed. Yes, Xi3’s Piston is certainly going to be ‘a’ notable Steam Box. But it’s not ‘the’ Steam Box, the details of which Valve boss Gabe Newell has revealed to The Verge. We’ll come out with our own [hardware] …

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