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Steam is now restored in the area but the Early Access religious themed brawler has also been removed from the store in Malaysia
Read More »Malaysia blocked Steam access in the country following release of PQube’s Fight of Gods
PQube’s Fight of the Gods taken off sale on Steam in Malaysia
PQube’s religious-themed 2D brawler Fight of the Gods has been causing chaos over in Malaysia. The game, which launched on Steam Early Access last week, sees religious and mythological figures such as Jesus, Moses, Odin, Athena and Anubis battling each other for supremacy as they fight an unknown evil. Firstly,the …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hits 10m units, with 2m in the last two weeks alone
The game has continued to close in on Dota 2's 1.3m concurrent player record as well
Read More »Square Enix Collective: ‘We’re very honoured’ to publish Battalion 1944
Indie service provider Square Enix Collective has said it’s "very honoured" to be working with Bulkhead Studios again on its upcoming WWII shooter Battalion 1944, which is on show this week at gamescom in Hall 9. Square Enix’s indie publishing unit previously worked with the team on the first-person puzzle …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has sold over 8 million units
With sales numbers confirmed on last night's Xbox live stream, the game is now also the most popular non-Valve developed game on Steam
Read More »Rez Infinite launches on Steam and Oculus store in surprise release
Enhance Games has announced that its award-winning game Rez Infinite is now available to buy on PC for the very first time. Originally developed for the PS4 and PS VR, players can now buy the game on Steam and Oculus Home. It’s also compatible with the HTC Vive and will …
Read More »Rogue Islands dated for September, with Keystone Games handling digital and boxed release
Newly formed publisher Keystone Games has announced it’s bringing Big Fat Alien and Blue Sock Studio’s fantasy FPS title Rogue Islands out of Early Access into a full worldwide release this September. Keystone Games, which is currently headed up by industry veteran Jane Rachel Whittaker, will also be supporting the …
Read More »Games publishing 2017: Steam’s ‘benevolent monopoly’ and the discoverability ‘bun fight’
In Part Three of our publishing roundtable, we discuss the rise of digital. With digital becoming more important to publishers’ balance sheets, we ask publishers about competition in the marketplace and whether any improvements have been made to discoverability. In case you missed it, in Part One of our publishing roundtable, we …
Read More »PUBG is now Steam’s most-played non-Valve title
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegroundshas now reached 481,291 users at its peak on Steam, creator Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene announced on Twitter (see below). This makes PUBG the most played game on Steam apart from Valve’s own titles, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2. The latter is still far ahead though with 1,291,328 peak …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now has the highest non-Valve peak player count in Steam’s history
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now has the highest peak player count out of every game on Steam that isn’t published by Valve. PUBG has slipped into third place on the most played of all time list, leapfrogging Fallout 4’s peak player count of 481,291 just two weeks after it vaulted into fourth …
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