Battlefield 2042 and Forza Horizon 5 continue to lead the chart of the best-selling games on Steam. Last week, they again got the entire first half of the rating. Also in the top of the bestsellers was the upcoming Halo Infinite story campaign.

Yesterday, Microsoft, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Xbox and the Halo franchise, opened access to the free-play beta of the Halo Infinite multiplayer — three weeks earlier than planned. In the first hours after the release of the game, its online on Steam exceeded 270 thousand people.

Last week, Battlefield 2042 climbed to the top of the Steam bestseller chart, beating Forza Horizon 5. Thanks to various publications, the multiplayer shooter from DICE took three lines at once, including the first. But New World for the first time in eight weeks failed to get into the top ten best-selling games.

META Publishing has agreed with Steam to hold the second Pancake Week 2022 Carnival Festival. The company has already opened the acceptance of applications for participants. An important condition is that the developer studio or publisher of the game must be from the CIS countries.The second Carnival Festival will be held from February 28 to March 6, 2022.

Age of Empires IV has lost its lead in the Steam bestseller chart — last week the game dropped to the second line of the rating. Instead, the best-selling title was Forza Horizon 5, which is scheduled for release on November 9.

Back 4 Blood has been leading the Steam bestseller chart for the past two weeks. However, now the first line (and with it the second and seventh) was taken by Age of Empires IV. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy was also among the top ten best-selling games last week.

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.