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.

This time there is not a single novelty in the weekly chart of the best-selling Steam games. It’s all the fault of the summer sale. Topped the top Sea of Thieves, which in addition to the discount began a crossover with the franchise “Pirates of the Caribbean”.

Localization is an important issue, especially for small developers with a limited budget. In addition, the list of key PC markets has changed a lot in recent years – for example, Russian is now among the four most popular languages on Steam. Gaming expert Simon Carless told how localization can affect sales, and what rules should be followed in this matter.At the beginning of his material, Carless draws attention to last year’s research by the…

The VG Insights service released an infographic in which it highlighted in detail how the pandemic affected Steam in terms of launching new projects. According to his data, the unfavorable situation in the world last year had a significant impact on all types of gaming products (that is, both AAA projects and games from indie teams).

Most often, developers present their games at summer exhibitions like E3 or their own events. In his new column, gaming expert Simon Carless told how such events affect the growth of the number of vishlist, and what percentage of them are converted into purchases.Carless notes that the following criteria will help to track the effectiveness of participation in a certain exhibition or other online event:

There have been a lot of changes in the Steam chart over the past week. The new leader was the fighting game Guilty Gear: Drive, which took the first and third lines at once. Also in the top 5 was the upcoming Battlefield 2042, for which pre-orders have just opened.Guilty Gear: Drive, which took the first place, received high press ratings on the release.

There are a lot of changes in the latest Steam chart. Biomutant and Days Gone are no longer among the best-selling games for the past week, and Going Medieval took the first place in the ranking.

Biomutant is doing badly. The game lost 82.6% of the audience by the end of the first week of sales. And the number of simultaneous players continues to decrease.

Valve has added another feature to its store. Now unrelated developers and publishers can independently launch joint bundles with games on Steam. Previously, only Valve itself could create such sets.

The ambiguous reaction of the audience to the release of Biomutant did not prevent the title from capturing the first two lines in the weekly list of the best-selling Steam games. The previous leader of Days Gone went to the fifth place.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition failed to hold a leading position in the list of the best-selling Steam games in the second week of sales. After the release of the PC version of Days Gone, the sci-fi trilogy dropped to second place.

Released on Friday, May 14, Mass Effect Legendary Edition soared to the top of the Steam bestseller chart. Among other novelties in the top ten are the BIOMUTANT being prepared for release and the Endwalker add—on for FINAL FANTASY XIV, for which a pre-order has recently opened.

In 2019, immediately after the launch of the Epic Games Store, the owners of the store developed two scenarios for its development: aggressive and cautious. In an optimistic scenario, Epic Games hoped to get 50% of the PC market (but it depended on whether Steam would react to the company’s actions). In the pessimistic — to keep only 8% of the PC market.

Indie studio Wolfire Games, known for the action game about anthropomorphic animals Overgrowth, initiated an antitrust class action lawsuit against Valve. The reason was the dominant position of the company in the PC market. The creators of Steam are accused of the fact that the high commission of the store allegedly forces publishers to raise prices and invest less money in development.Overgrowth