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A Chinese gaming association has warned that the game could be too violent and bloody
Read More »Could PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds be banned in China?
Valve announces changes to its Curator program
Discovery remains one of Steam’s most significant unsolved puzzles. With the huge number of games hitting the service every week, the ability for potential buyers to find content relevant to them is crucial. Valve still believes its Curator program, which sees users following other users who maintain a list of …
Read More »Steam now offering digital gift cards
Valve has finally started offering the ability for consumers to purchase digital Steam Gift Cards. To do so, the sender must have a Steam account of their own – something that could actually be fairly limiting, as lots of mums and dads and especially grans and grandads may not have …
Read More »Cuphead sells 1m in two weeks, but only around 400,000 on Xbox
Xbox console exclusive Cuphead has sold over a million copies in just two weeks, Studio MDHR has announced. Released on September 29th for Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam, the 30s animation-style run and gun title received rave reviews from both critics and fans alike, and had been much hyped …
Read More »Silicon Echo closes following removal of games from Steam – Polygon
Over 200 games were taken down from Valve's platform following user reports of "asset flipping"
Read More »Heat Signature beats Gunpoint’s Week One sales, dev reveals
The creator of indie darling Gunpoint has revealed their latest game Heat Signature (pictured), which released digitally on Steam last Thursday, has had a better launch week than its debut game. Heat Signature has been in development for three and a half years and has cost 200,000 to make, developer …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tops Steam concurrent user table
The game hits 1,348,374 players over this past weekend, toppling the record long held by Dota 2
Read More »Flashbulb’s Trailmakers channels the spirit of Max and the Magic Marker
The former Microsoft studio that brought us Max and the Magic Marker, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood and Kalimba is bringing its latest game Trailmakers to PC and consoles next year. Flashbulb Games, previously Press Play, will be releasing its physics-based vehicle-building sandbox on Steam Early Access in December, before …
Read More »More Steam games have been released since June than the combined total between 2006-2014
Following the launch of Steam Direct, over 1,300 new titles have become available
Read More »Ubisoft Reflections’ surprise PC shooter Atomega releases next week
Ubisoft’s Reflections studio has announced it’s releasing a brand-new PC game in just over a week’s time. Entitled Atomega, the online multiplayer FPS has seemingly come out of nowhere, joining Gunpoint dev Tom Francis’ new title Heat Signature (which also launches next week) in a number of surprise release announcements …
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