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The decision to move Evolve from a premium to free-to-play business model appears to be giving the team shooter a new lease of life. The game’s player base has increased by a whopping 26,000 per cent since its transition to a free-to-play model. Evolve had around 200 players when the …
Read More »Report: Money generated in Steam Summer Sale up 43% year-on-year
Consumers spent $68m more in this year’s Steam Summer Sale than 2015’s. That’s according to analytics site Steam Spy on Twitter (below), which claims that gamers spent $228m compared with last year’s $160m. That’s a 42.5 per cent increase. Note that Steam Spy figures – by its own admission – …
Read More »‘Not fun’ and ‘Accidental purchase’ top Facepunch and RocketWerkz Steam refund request reasons
Studios behind Rust and Out of Ammo reveal data for the last month, showing that technical troubles also encourage players to ask for their money back
Read More »War Child charity games bundle arrives next month on Steam
A collection of new games from some of Europe’s biggest studios will launch next month, with all profits going to War Child. Published by Sega, Help: The Game will launch on Steam from July 26th for 9.99. The title features new games from Team17, Rovio, Spilt Milk Studios, Sports Interactive, …
Read More »Sci-fi shooter Orion pulled from Steam over allegedly stolen Call of Duty weapons assets
Activision claims that Trek Industries’ shooter Orion has been using assets from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Advanced Warfare. The weapon art in question includes the M8A7 rifle, the Haymaker rifle, and the Bal-27 rifle," stated Activision’s request. As a consequence, Orion has been removed from Steam for …
Read More »Dev slams Activision for pulling game from Steam over allegedly stolen art assets
Trek Industries rebuffs claims that it reused weapon models from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Advanced Warfare in Orion
Read More »RageSquid backs key reseller criticism: ‘We’d rather players pirated our game’
'Just torrent it instead of putting money in the wrong hands,' says founder Lex Decrauw
Read More »PC game Hadean Lands comes with £27 DLC… for a certificate
Consumers purchasing PC title Hadean Landshave the option of shelling out 27 for a digital certificate. As reported by Kotaku, this digital piece of paper – available as either a PDF or JPG and viewable below – asks consumers to promise to finish the notoriously tough text adventure game without …
Read More »Indie dev releases single-page PDF as £27 DLC
Andrew Plotkin’s ‘add-on’ for text puzzle adventure Hadean Lands makes players vow they won’t cheat
Read More »TinyBuild: We lost $450,000 in revenue to grey market key sellers
Punch Club and SpeedRunners studio hits out at site G2A for ‘facilitating a fraud-fueled economy’ by offering Steam codes often obtained deceitfully
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