On September 28, the official release of New World took place and the game immediately broke into the top position of Steam in terms of the number of players. The hype led to problems on the servers, long queues and departures.

A strategy game about the life of Timberborn beavers sold more than 130 thousand copies in the first week of sales and received 95% positive reviews on Steam.

Last week, Tencent, NetEase and more than 200 Chinese gaming companies signed an agreement to combat gaming addiction. A number of experts believe that this could also hit foreign platforms. Among them are Steam, Epic Games Store and other stores that developers actively use to bypass the process of obtaining state licenses to sell their titles in China.The main attention in the signed agreement was paid to online games.

Last week, the leader of the bestseller chart on Steam was a fresh operation for CS:GO — “Predatory waters”. Also, New World broke into the top three best-selling games again. Pre-orders of two of her publications took second and third place in the ranking.

Russian games perform well in sales. Yesterday they got three lines at once in the world’s top 10 Steam bestsellers, including the first one. It’s about Potion Craft and World War Z: Aftermath.

Indie developer Jan Wojtecki shared his experience in promoting his Pawnbarian bagel. Having no funds for at least some marketing, he managed to collect more than 10 thousand vishlists on Steam by the release. The developer spoke about working with streamers, game festivals and other effective promotion channels.

Last week, Deathloop climbed to the top of the Steam bestseller chart, displacing Tales of Arise from the first place. The deluxe edition of the title also got to the top — he got the third place. Also, New World and Valheim returned to the top ten best-selling games.

Russian Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is still in the top three of the Steam bestseller chart. But the best-selling game last week was Tales of Arise by Bandai Namco. Thanks to various publications, she got into the top 10 three times, taking first and second places, among others.

The New World open beta test from Amazon Games started yesterday. More than 140 thousand people decided to participate in it at the same time. Such excitement allowed the project to enter the top 5 most popular games on Steam.

Today Valve has introduced a big update for Steam, previously available as part of the beta test. The main innovations are the improved download manager and the storage management process. Games from the library are now easier to move between folders and drives.Key changes

VG Insights has added two new analytical tools to its platform. With their help, you can see all developers and publishers on Steam, as well as track their estimated revenue, genre preferences and much more.

Polish PlayWay has collected more vishlists on Steam than any other publisher, leaving Square Enix, SEGA and Electronic Arts far behind. A controversial marketing strategy helped her in this. The company made trailers for hundreds of games, but brought only single titles to release.

Last week, the best-selling game on Steam was Battlefield V. Thanks for this, you need a 90% discount. As for new products, the best sales were shown by the Russian Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. She entered the chart twice, taking second and fourth places with the help of different publications.

Valve has announced that Steam Deck devkits are ready to ship. The company started accepting applications from developers and clarified that the number of devkits is limited.

Developer Lars Doucet presented a detailed analysis of the most common game engines on Steam. To do this, together with the SteamDB website, he collected a large amount of data about the titles in the Valve store and the tools with which they were made.

This weekend, the VR horror Phasmophobia once again hit the top ten most popular games on Steam. Its peak online exceeded 60 thousand people. There was more only in the premiere month.

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.

On Steam, you can get a refund for the game if you spend less than two hours in it. Although this policy is used by many gamers, short game developers are not very happy with it. She forced the Russian indie developer Emika Games to leave the industry altogether.

Not all vishlists on Steam are converted into purchases. Less than 20% of players acquire the “desired” titles in the first week from the moment of release. A good way to push others to buy is to use FOMO. How exactly to do this, marketing consultant Chris Zukowski told in his column on the website How To Market A Game.