Back 4 Blood did not hold the leading position in the weekly chart of the best-selling games on Steam. The new leader was the Chinese battle royale Naraka: Bladepoint, which, thanks to two different publications, was immediately on the first and fourth lines of the rating.

Yesterday, the release of the battle royale Naraka: Bladepoint, the debut game of the Chinese studio 24 Entertainment, took place. During the day of the online project on Steam, he overcame the milestone of 70 thousand people.

A few years ago, the indie apocalypse almost turned Steam into a “garbage dump”. Valve managed to defeat the invasion of low-quality games, while continuing to let everyone into its store. However, due to the new Steam algorithms, small titles actually have no place left on the site. Marketing consultant Chris Zukowski told about this problem in his material for the website How To Market A Game.

Tens of thousands of games are available on Steam today. Thanks to the new free tool, you can now view all the engines and technologies that developers used to create projects for this site.The project was developed by Lars Doucet, co-founder of the Level Up Labs studio, together with the SteamDB website.

Last week, the Steam bestseller chart was topped by the zombie shooter Back 4 Blood. The previous leader of New World is still in the ranking, but now pre-orders of two of his publications have dropped to the seventh and eighth lines.

Last summer, the “Games to Be” demo festival was held on Steam for the first time. Since then, Valve has held three more such events. In its blog, the company told how they affected the number of vishlist and game sales.

The best—selling game of the week on Steam turned out to be New World again – pre-orders of two of its editions kept the first two lines of the chart. But the rest of the rating has changed a lot. The only game besides New World that managed to stay in the top ten bestsellers was GTA V.

In April, indie studio Wolfire Games, which created an action game about anthropomorphic animals Overgrowth, sued Valve. She claimed that Steam owners forbid publishers to sell games in other stores at cheaper prices, and generally abuse their position in the PC market. Three months later, Valve stated that there were no grounds for these accusations.

A Reddit user found out which engines are most often used in the most highly rated games on Steam. It turned out that in the top 50 last year, almost 50% of projects were made on Unity. This engine is ahead of competitors, including Unreal, by a large margin.Such conclusions were reached by the user wx3labs, who shared the results of his small research on a popular site.

New World is leading the Steam bestseller chart this week. Thanks to various publications, pre-orders of MMORPG from Amazon Games took the first two lines in the rating at once.

Closed beta testing of New World, a premium MMORPG developed by Amazon Games, began yesterday. Already in the first day of online games on Steam exceeded 190 thousand people. Now she is also in the top on Twitch.

New Week — a new Steam bestseller chart. There are almost no titles left in the top ten best-selling games from last week, except Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin. This game became the leader of the rating. Also among the bestsellers was the recently announced Steam Deck.

The announcement of the Steam Deck aroused considerable interest among gaming industry experts and ordinary users. At the same time, most of the reactions were positive. The Valve console is compared to the Nintendo Switch, memes are made about it, and they also talk about whether it will be able to find its audience and become a competitive solution in the market.

Yesterday, Valve announced its portable Steam Deck console. Its cheapest version will be $50 more expensive than the new Nintendo Switch OLED. However, Gabe Newell believes that this is still a “painfully” low price tag.

Valve has announced a game console. It is portable, called Steam Deck and allows you to run PC games.

After scandals with a massive decline in the rating of games, developers often begin to wonder if this will affect them as well. Some suggest radically solving the problem and completely banning gamers from rating. But according to the authors of the Dusk retroshooter, this can only aggravate the situation.

New items have reappeared in the weekly Steam bestseller chart. So far, this is only Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, which, thanks to various publications, took two lines at once — the third and ninth. Topped the PUBG chart, selling with a 50% discount.

The summer sale on Steam continues, so there are no new games in the weekly bestseller chart, and there are almost no changes. Unless Horizon Zero Dawn disappeared from the list, instead of which Red Dead Redemption 2 entered the top.

Several events related to Cyberpunk 2077 took place over the weekend. At first, CD PROJEKT management stated that it was quite a general state of the game. After that, it became known that sales of the title increased by 374%. But then it turned out that his audience on the PC continued to plummet.