Elden Ring has firmly established itself at the top of the Steam bestseller chart. Over the past four weeks, no project has been able to shift the FromSoftware game from the first place. However, Steam Deck is breathing down her back, which once again got to the second line of the rating.

Today, on March 18, developers and authors of content for the Steam workshop began to receive notifications from Valve stating that “due to current events, it is impossible to send bank payments to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.”

Steam is the most popular gaming platform of the last two years. This conclusion was reached by the PR manager of TweakTown, who compared the MAU of four large console and desktop platforms.

Last week, Steam Deck returned to the Steam bestseller chart and very successfully — it immediately got to the second line of the rating. The first place has been taken by one of the editions of Elden Ring for the third week in a row.

Valve has summed up the results of 2021 for its digital Steam store. In many ways, it was more successful than the previous year. For example, the platform has increased the number of active users, and those, in turn, have spent more money on games.

Russian players can no longer buy games on Steam. The platform has blocked payment acceptance for Russian users. The exception is PayPal.

Against the background of the situation in Ukraine, popular gaming stores have stopped accepting cards of some Russian banks that have fallen under sanctions. Different users have problems with payment in Steam, GOG, Nintendo eShop and a number of other stores.In the case of Steam, most users note the inability to withdraw funds from VTB cards.

Last week, the best-selling game on Steam predictably became Elden Ring. The bestseller chart includes all its editions and pre—orders – together they took four places at once, including the first three. The recently released Steam Deck also showed strong sales.

Pancake Week festival for developers from the CIS will not take place next week. META Publishing made the decision to postpone the event indefinitely due to the beginning of [Roskomnadzor] with Ukraine. Now the company is resolving the issue with representatives of GOG and Steam.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human and Lost Ark no longer reign on the Steam bestseller chart. Last week, the first place went only to the released Total War: WARHAMMER III. Cyberpunk 2077 also returned to the list of the best-selling games of the week.Total War: WARHAMMER III

Another successful indie game from domestic developers has appeared on the market. We are talking about the Diplomacy is Not an Option strategy. In just six days, the project’s revenue on Steam exceeded $ 1 million.

Although Dying Light 2: Stay Human still tops the Steam bestseller chart, Lost Ark is breathing down her back. Last week, sets with bonuses for Korean MMORPG took five places in the ranking at once. Also, Lost Ark became the second peak online game in the history of Steam.

Negative reviews on Steam can be very painful for the developer, but you should not ignore them. So says Joe Henson, one of the creators of the indie shooter Hypercharge: Unboxed. In an article for Game Developer, he explained why it is important to respond to such comments and how best to do it.

The western version of the Korean MMORPG Lost Ark has not yet been released, but it has already become a hit. Its release is scheduled for February 11, but yesterday the owners of special packs received early access to the game. After that, the online project instantly exceeded 500 thousand people.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human has an extremely successful start on Steam. Zombie action from Techland became the best-selling game of last week, capturing more than half of the places on the bestseller chart. He took six lines at once, including the first three.

What helps to extend the life cycle of the game in the modern PC market? This question was asked by the expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless). He highlighted several common features that are inherent in the most successful titles on Steam in terms of their findability in the store.Carless shared the results in his GameDiscoverCo newsletter.

There have been no significant changes in the Steam bestseller chart for three weeks now — God of War and Monster Hunter Rise continue to top the rating. Except that the third place this time went to Dying Light 2: Stay Human, which is scheduled for release on February 4.

There was a discussion among developers about the dominance of indie games, which are released on Steam by the thousands every year. Two polar points of view collided. First, most of these titles are not needed by the market, because they have zero value. The second is that people should not be forbidden to express themselves through creativity and consider games only as a business.

Game marketing consultant Chris Zukowski explained why developers need to get the first 10 reviews on Steam as soon as possible. This is the key bar, after which the store’s algorithms notice any game and can significantly increase its visibility in the store.Zhukovsky told about this in a small thread on his Twitter page.