During the week of April 8 to 15, the leaders in the chart of top-grossing products on Steam were once again Counter-Strike 2 and Schedule I. However, almost the entire rest of the top ten experienced changes.

Hasbro has released its financial report for 2024. The company shared that royalty revenues from MONOPOLY GO! and Baldur’s Gate 3 exceeded expectations and announced a partnership with Saber Interactive.

The highest-grossing game on Steam for the past week was once again Counter-Strike 2. However, amidst discounts due to the winter sale and other factors, the rest of the chart saw quite a few changes.

Last week marked the beginning of the autumn sale on Steam, significantly altering the landscape of the platform’s top-grossing products chart. Here’s what we observed.

Larian Studios’ Publishing Director Michael Douse shared on the social network X some impressive achievements of Baldur’s Gate 3. He mentioned that in 2024, several metrics of the game surpassed those in its release year.

Last week, Hasbro reported its financial results for the third quarter (ended September 30, 2024). Here are the key points concerning its gaming business.

The company Hasbro reported its second quarter of 2024 (April-June). Among other things, it announced that it continues to receive good revenue from licensing the MONOPOLY and Baldur’s Gate franchises.

Last week, Steam’s summer sale kicked off, significantly affecting the sales chart. It helped many long-released games return to the list of top-grossing products for the week from June 25 to July 2.

The head of Larian Studios, Sven Vincke, criticized the heads of gaming companies for mass layoffs at the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony. He called the constant pursuit of profit the root of the problem and called for breaking the vicious circle.

Michael Douse, director of publishing at Larian Studios, inadvertently revealed the size of Baldur’s Gate 3 audience. He mentioned the number during a discussion about mod support.

Hasbro, the company that owns the rights to Dungeons & Dragons, has published a financial report for 2023. She reported that her video game revenue has grown well thanks to the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 and MONOPOLY GO!.

Baldur’s Gate 3 managed to take a new achievement. The number of reviews of the game on Steam has exceeded half a million, which is more than Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

As part of the “Winter Sale” on Steam, which started on December 21, Larian Studios has put a small 10% discount on Baldur’s Gate 3. The effect was not long in coming.

On November 30, the Larian Studios blog on Steam reported that 1.3 million people have played the game since its release on August 3. This allows you to give an approximate estimate of the number of copies of the game sold.

Neil Newbon is an actor who played Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3 and received the award for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Joystick Awards 2023. In his acceptance speech, he admitted that the gaming industry had saved his career.

Analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana also said that in September, Steam users from the United States played Counter-Strike 2, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfield the most actively.

The analytical company Newzoo shared statistics on Baldur’s Gate 3 for August. We have chosen the main thing.

The release of Baldur’s Gate 3 became extremely successful: only on Steam the peak online game exceeded 875 thousand people. It is not known for sure how many people bought the game in total, but Larian Studios and Wizards of the Coast are very pleased with the results of the project.

The novelty from Larian Studios has become an event on Twitch. The team of the streaming platform reported that Twitch users spent 41 million hours watching broadcasts on Baldur’s Gate 3.