Our latest coverage of Steam.
Warframe continues its meteoric rise. The sci-fi action RPG by Digital Extremes is now the highest earning free to play title on Steam, surpassing Valve's own Dota 2 which has dominated the chart for years. What makes this accomplishment especially remarkable is the fact that only a portion of Warframe's playerbase connects via Steam. PC users also have the option [...]
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Valve's Steam platform has dominated the PC gaming market for years now. If you're reading this post, its likely you too are active on Steam. Despite publishers like EA, Ubisoft, and Blizzard creating their own launchers, most of us still prefer to use Steam. Part of the continued attraction of Steam as a platform are the constant sales Valve runs, [...]
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Valve made several changes to their profile privacy settings on April 10. Some of these changes, namely making user's games libraries private by default,have had immediate and dramatic effects on the broader Steam ecosystem. Among the victims of this change was SteamSpy, a popular data aggregation site heavily trafficked by both players and developers. The site tracked sales numbers, player [...]
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Valve is clamping down on Steam Key requests by developers, according to a recent comment posting made by Sean Jenkin, a Valve engineer on the Steamworks developer platform. “If we are denying keys for normal size batches it’s likely because your Steam sales don’t reflect a need for as many keys as you’re distributing. You’re probably asking for more keys [...]
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Steam has seen a spike in new game releases after the implementation of Steam Direct, Valve's newly launched publishing platform. According to data gathered by Ico Partners, a rising trend in release numbers can be seen before and after Steam Direct's debut. Here are the number of releases of the previous weeks (from mid-April 2017). 🤔 pic.twitter.com/SJaiXvdMqe — Thom ⚔🎲 [...]
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On June 13, 2017 Valve announced the launch of Steam Direct, the replacement for the much maligned Steam Greenlight. Greenlight sounded like a good idea at first, it allowed players to vote for which games should be approved for Steam. Unfortunately, it didn't take long for shady studios to game the system. Lots of junk, broken products, and 'asset flips' [...]
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Earlier this year, Valve decided to axe Steam Greenlight, and made the move to its new publishing service Steam Direct. With the new system in place, Valve now required developers to pay a fee to publish their games on the Steam platform, in addition to verifying their company status. At the time, Valve had not yet decided on what to [...]
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In a bid to combat reselling on "gray market" services like G2A, Steam announced major changes to their gifting system today. Going forward, players will only be able to make a gift purchase directly on the check-out page. The Gift to E-mail and Gift to Inventory options will be removed. Existing gift copies sitting in Steam inventories are unaffected and [...]
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Dungeons & Dragons Online, DDO for short, is a 3D fantasy themed action MMORPG based on the iconic tabletop game. DDO was the first Dungeons & Dragons themed online game and successfully replicates the tabletop feel in an MMORPG setting. [singlepic id=9980 w=428 h=240 float=none] Publisher: Standing Stone Games Playerbase: Medium Type: MMORPG Release Date: February 28, 2006 Pros: +Story [...]
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Many studios have turned to Steam to relaunch their MMORPGs in the hope that Valve's platform gives them second wind. Some game listings are baffling: servers that shut down due to low playerbases years ago, or even one private server that snuck its way onto Steam. Others show up and see some success. Regardless of how they got, they're back, [...]
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