Zombie shooter Back 4 Blood continues to dominate the Steam bestseller chart. Last week, the game was the best-selling in the store for the second time in a row. New World has also been in the top three for the past five weeks — now it is in second place.

Last week, the best-selling game on Steam was Back 4 Blood. Different editions of the zombie shooter from Turtle Rock Studios got four lines in the rating at once, including the first. But Battlefield 2042 and FIFA 22 have disappeared from dozens of bestsellers.

It seems that Valve is set against blockchain games. According to the updated Steam rules, titles with NFT will not be allowed in the store. This also applies to projects already placed on the site.Age of Rust

For the second week in a row, the Steam bestseller chart is headed by New World — according to the results of last week, the game again remained in first place. But Battlefield 2042 also had strong sales. Shooter took the next three places in the ranking.

On Wednesday, Twitch was subjected to a hacker attack: among the stolen data was information about an application codenamed Vapour. It has already been dubbed a Steam rival.

The best-selling game of last week on Steam was New World. The Amazon Games project is located on four lines in the chart at once: on the first three and fifth.

Dyson Sphere Program is another hit created by Chinese developers. For eight months in early access on Steam, the number of copies of the title sold exceeded 1.7 million. This made it one of the best-selling Chinese indie games this year.Dyson Sphere Program was released in early access on January 21.

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.