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.

The new leader in the Steam bestseller list last week was HUMANKIND, a turn—based 4X strategy game from Amplitude Studios. Thanks to various publications, she captured the first and third lines at once. The indie thriller about the time loop Twelve Minutes also got to the top, but it got only the eighth place.

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.