The service SteamDB has published a fresh weekly chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam. As usual, Counter-Strike 2 occupied the first place in the ranking, but unexpectedly Destiny 2 surged to the second spot.

Author Kelsey Martineau has filed a lawsuit against Bungie, accusing the studio of plagiarism. He claims that the developers borrowed many plot elements from his work for the “Red War” campaign in Destiny 2.

Destiny 2 often appears in the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam, but during the week of May 28 to June 4, it managed to climb to the second place in the rankings. The game’s surge was due to the excitement surrounding the release of the expansion, The Final Shape, which is launching today.

Together with experts, we analyze whether Bungie really knows how to develop and operate games services, as well as how often transactions are made in the market, whose goal is to obtain expertise.

There are strong changes in the Steam bestseller chart. There are almost no games left from the last time, except for HUMANKIND and Naraka: Bladepoint — the leaders of recent weeks. The Witch Queen supplement for Destiny 2 topped the chart, which recently opened pre-order.

Bungie shared Destiny user statistics in honor of the sixth anniversary of the series. During this time, 167 million people have played the luther shooter.Basic figures

In the new season of Destiny 2, the sale of loot boxes will be closed. So Bungie studio will make the system of random rewards more transparent for players.

Google Stadia is clearly not the best platform for multiplayer games right now. MAU Destiny 2 has 9.9 thousand players on it.

The release of Destiny 2 on Steam equalized the shares of its console and PC users. Now 51% of the game’s audience is playing from a desktop.

The release of the Steam version of Destiny 2 was relatively successful. In seven days, the game appeared in the libraries of 2.97 million Steam users.

Today, the PC version of Destiny 2 was released on Steam. The title from Bungie immediately got into the top 10 games of the store with the highest online. Its peak of simultaneous players is 220 thousand.

Destiny has become the second most popular shooter series on the American market. And there is also the seventh among the best—selling game franchises.

Bungie Studio refused to consider Activision a tyrant. Leaving the publisher was only a consequence of creative differences, said Bungie Communications director David Dague.

The story of Destiny 2 sounds more and more interesting. Bungie announces that its project will be completely removed from the service Battle.net . On PC, the game will appear exclusively on Steam.

Activision Blizzard reported for the 3rd quarter of 2018. The verdict is disappointing: in July-September, the company’s revenues fell by 6.8% year-on-year.

Due to a bug in the Destiny 2 multiplayer shooter, the matchmaking system began to select players with different skill levels for fast online battles. Gamers liked this option even more: the battles are now more fun and end earlier.

The revenues of the last part of the Call of Duty franchise exceeded a seven-figure sum. Call of Duty: WWII earned $ 1 billion in less than 2 months, according to the publisher of the game Activision.

Sales of physical copies of the MMO shooter Destiny 2 by Activision Blizzard at the end of the first month were 50% less than the original for the same period.

The Destiny 2 multiplayer shooter from Bungie simultaneously gathered over 1.2 million players in the first weekend after the release. This is more than the main Steam hit of this year – Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, which recently surpassed the mark of 1 million players.