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Valve has revealed Steam’s top selling titles for the past week. ArmA II, imbued by the power of its DayZ mod, simply refuses to relinquish its firm grasp on the top of the charts. The aging FPS came out ahead again this week despite some heavy competition in the arrival …
Read More »Notch is concerned by Steam’s PC dominance
Have you ever noticed that Minecraft isn’t on Steam? Well, it isn’t. Which is odd as Steam is the biggest digital PC distributor and Minecraft is one of the PC’s biggest success stories. The reason, it transpires, is that the game’s creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson remains concerned about Steam’s grip …
Read More »Steam gaining traction on low-end PCs
Last month’s Steam hardware survey shows that more and more people are using Valve’s digital retail platform on less powerful PCs. The report shows that the number of Steam users relying on Intel’s integrated graphics has risen from 4 per cent to 11 per cent, while the use of dual …
Read More »Notch worries PC gaming is owned by Steam
Minecraft creator speaks to benefits of self-publishing
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: July 15-21
Valve has announced the top selling titles on Steam for the week prior, revealing the games that climbed up the charts during the digital distributor’s annual summer sale. Those who made the list stood out from the hundreds if not thousands of discounted games during the eleven-day period. The promotion …
Read More »Read exclusive interviews with EA, UKIE and Gearbox in this week’s MCV
The latest issue of MCV is now available digitally, and it features interviews with Electronic Arts, UKIE and Borderlands developer Gearbox. That’s on top of the latest charts data from Chart-Track, the PlayStation Network, Steam, Apple and iOS. This week’s edition also asks what happens now PEGI is law and …
Read More »Steam sales "don’t affect full price sale"
Valve’s business management director has claimed that Steam’s frequent price promotions do not have a negative effect on the sale of full price software. If that’s what we thought was happening, or that’s what we saw happening, we wouldn’t do it,” Jason Holtman told PC Gamer. Actually, all the data …
Read More »Valve brings Steam to Linux
Left 4 dead 2 to be first game rolled out on open operating system
Read More »Left 4 Dead 2 heading to Linux, Steam client for Ubuntu in the works
Valve has confirmed it is working on a Steam client for the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system, adding that Left 4 Dead 2 will be the debut title for it. The new team of 11 made the announcements by introducing themselves on Valve’s new Linux blog Steam’d Penguins. Currently there aim …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: July 8-14
Valve has revealed the top selling titles for the week prior, with the first three days of the Steam Summer Sale figuring in quite a bit. ArmA II still grabs the top spot despite being just 20 per cent off for the initial days of the sale. The rest of …
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