The public beta of the Chinese version of Steam, for which the publisher Perfect World is responsible, has become available to local gamers. Now a little more than 40 games are available in the store, including the titles of Vavle itself.Analyst Daniel Ahmad drew attention to this.

Steam has updated its own record for the number of users who were online at the same time. Yesterday, the peak online in the Valve store exceeded 26 million people for the first time.According to SteamDB, on February 7, 26,401,443 people were on Steam at the same time.

The cooperative survival about Vikings Valheim became the leader of sales on Steam, and the peak online game exceeded 130 thousand users. This is despite the fact that the title appeared in the early access store less than a week ago.

Tale of Immortal is probably a new gaming phenomenon from the Middle Kingdom. It is available only in Chinese and is in early access, but the number of simultaneous players of the project on Steam has already exceeded 170 thousand people.Tale of Immortal is an RPG from Lighting Games studio based on Chinese mythology and philosophy.

Despite the release of a major off-season update, online Fall Guys continues to fall. Now it has dropped below 12 thousand simultaneous players, which is several times less than the peak values.The peak online Fall Guys for 24 hours was 11681 people, according to SteamDB.

Yesterday, Creative Assembly officially announced Total War: Warhammer III. Despite the fact that the release of the game is scheduled for the end of the year, it almost immediately became the leader of sales on Steam.

Valve is on the verge of a new trial. This time, Steam owners are accused of “abusing the market power of the platform.” They say that the company prohibits developers from lowering the prices of their games in other digital stores.

The Deep Rock Galactic cooperative shooter was released from early access last year, and since then the popularity of the game has only been growing. Ghost Ship Games studio reported 2 million copies sold and a MAU of 310 thousand people.The developers shared this information on their official Steam blog.

Steam presented the traditional list of the most successful new products of last month by revenue. In December, the top 20 included Red Dead Online, Worms Rumble, Haven and Cyberpunk 2077, which became one of the most popular games in the history of the store.Haven

Free prologues on Steam can be a good marketing tool to promote the game before release. Gaming expert Simon Carless analyzed their impact on sales and adding to vishlists, describing successful and failed cases.

The European Commission considered that Valve’s actions to link games to regions violate the antitrust legislation of the European Union. Together with her, five other publishers were fined for a total of almost €8 million. Valve plans to challenge the injunction.The fine was imposed based on the results of an investigation that began seven years ago.

Tomorrow Valve will start testing the official version of Steam for China. However, local users expressed their dissatisfaction with what was happening. They fear that they will soon be deprived of the opportunity to play thousands of games due to the unavailability of the international version of the store.What is the dissatisfaction of gamers?

Steam shared the results of last year. The platform described in detail what changes 2020 brought to it, and also published statistics with its business indicators. Below are the main ones.

The GitHyp website, which collects game statistics, noticed that Cyberpunk 2077 lost 79% of Steam players a month after its release. The CD Projekt game still shows excellent online, but its previous hit The Witcher 3 at one time managed to keep users many times longer.On the release day, December 10, the peak online Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam exceeded 1 million people.

During the New Year holidays, the Rust survival simulator, released back in December 2013, updated several of its own records at once. Firstly, the peak online gaming on Twitch has surpassed the mark of 1 million viewers. Secondly, the number of simultaneous players on Steam has exceeded 240 thousand.The developers announced about overcoming the milestone of 1 million simultaneous viewers on Twitch on January 3.

Steam has updated its own Christmas record for the number of simultaneous users. On December 25, there were 23 million users on the network. This is almost one and a half times more than at Christmas 2019.

A few days before the New Year, Valve decided to tell us which games were the most successful on Steam in 2020.

Direct replenishment of the wallet on Steam may not be available for some users from the beginning of next year. It’s all about “changes in Russian legislation.”

Testing of new sections of the store has started on Steam. Now the entire catalog of games is divided into 63 categories — both genre and special, like adult-only content. All this is designed to simplify the search process and make it more flexible.The updated categories became available today as part of a new experiment in Steam Labs.