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Read More »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 …
Read More »Who says the boxed PC games market is dead? It overtook DS in the UK last year to be the fourth biggest games platform
PC has overtaken DS and 3DS to become the fourth biggest games platform in terms of boxed sales. That’s according to the latest data released to MCV from GfK Chart-Track. The PC market has been in decline over recent years, with more consumers choosing to download games via digital distribution …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Valve launches Steam Guides
More than 1,000 manuals already submitted for games and software such as GameMaker: Studio
Read More »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 …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: January 6-12
Valve has revealed the past week’s top ten sellers on Steam, with some veteran titles bubbling up thanks to an extension of the platform’s holiday sale. DayZ womb ArmA II rekindled some of its 2012 magic, finishing ahead of popular indie medieval FPS Chivalry to take the top spot for …
Read More »Harrison on Piston and Shield: ‘Hardware is a hard thing to do’
Microsoft exec warns of the difficulties ahead for Nvidia and Steam
Read More »We reveal the 100 best selling games of 2012 in this week’s MCV
This week’s MCV isnow available to view online – and it boasts our huge review of the year where we discuss the seven games that defined 2012. We also analyse the November sales data, pick the 25 Gadgets to stock this Christmas and reveal the full state of the UK …
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