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The developer behind the increasingly popular 2D social game Pixel Worlds talks to Sean Cleaver about the important of social media in game communities
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds reaches 4th all-time highest concurrent player count on Steam
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has claimed another impressive sounding statistic, as it just achieved a record for the fourth-highest peak player count in Steam’s history. There were 382,561 players charging around the fiction Eastern European wilderness shooting at each other, which put the game 22,000 players above the peak set by Grand …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has Early Access period extended
2017’s biggest surprise hit will spend a bit longer in Early Access than had been previously expected. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was released in March and from the off developer Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene has insisted that the title would exit Early Access within six months. That target is now going to be …
Read More »Ark: Survival Evolved has doubled in price
Popular survival title Ark: Survival Evolved has undergone a dramatic price increase on Steam. The game had until recently carried a 22.99 price tag on Steam in the UK. At times it had even been available for under a tenner when on sale. Now, however, the game will set buyers …
Read More »Cuphead will be released on Steam, but PS4 version ruled out
We now have a clearer picture of exactly how gamers will be able to get their hands on the hotly anticipated Cuphead. Speaking on Neogaf, a member of the game’s development team confirmed that the title will not by a Windows Store exclusive. Nor, however, will it be headed to …
Read More »Rust developer says 6 per cent of sales have been refunded on Steam
Garry Newman tweeted that over $4million has been refunded
Read More »Rust has refunded over $4,000,000 in Steam sales
While the dust has largely settled regarding the disagreements over Steam’s refund policies, the extent of their impact has been illustrated by Garry Newman. The developer has revealed that his sometimes controversial survival sandbox Rust has revealed that the game has in total been refunded 329,970 times, which in total …
Read More »Steam Direct launches, replacing Greenlight submission programme
Blog post details the final days of Greenlight and what to do to apply for Steam Direct
Read More »Valve’s first monster VAC ban wave arrives, banning nearly 5000 Steam accounts
Yesterday saw the first big VAC ban wave of 2017, as Valve brought the hammer down on nearly 5,000 Steam accounts after detecting a number of new cheat programs for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The eagle-eyed team at Dot Esports noticed the spike, which mostly affected users on Linux and Windows …
Read More »Valve loses another writer as Jay Pinkerton leaves
Follows Chet Faliszek, Erik Wolpaw and Marc Laidlaw out of the company
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