Today, the PC version of Destiny 2 was released on Steam. The title from Bungie immediately got into the top 10 games of the store with the highest online. Its peak of simultaneous players is 220 thousand.

Destiny has become the second most popular shooter series on the American market. And there is also the seventh among the best—selling game franchises.

The Steam library has changed its appearance. Public testing of the new design has begun in the store.

As far as the number of reviews of the game on Steam indicates its good sales, the author of the indie game Starcom: Nexus investigated. App2Top.ru publishes a translation of his post from Reddit, where the developer is known by the nickname JustKevin.

Neither viewers of streaming services nor Steam players are interested in the new Gears 5. This is very unusual for AAA from a major publisher, especially from the giant Microsoft.

Sales of games on Steam, as well as the income of their authors, decrease annually. One of the reasons the head of No More Robots Mike Rose (Mike Rose) considers too low prices for games.

Updating the search on Steam allowed us to estimate the volume of indie content on the site. According to the “indie” tag, you can find over 40 thousand products in the store.

Beta testing of the new Steam library starts on September 17. It will be open to all users of the store.

About whether it is possible to predict the sales of the game with the help of wishlists in Steam developers, tell YoYo Games.

The Steam store’s business model is outdated. So says Chris Early, Vice President of Partnerships and Revenue at Ubisoft.

One of the first Epic Games Store exclusives will be available on Steam by the end of the year. This is a Hades bagel from the authors of Transistor.

China is actively preparing a local version of the Valve store. A line of games for Steam China was announced today.

Steam has allowed the publication of adult games for good reason. In the top 20 of the most profitable novelties of the store for the past month, two hentai games appeared at once.

Valve has confirmed that Steam developers can no longer change release dates without its consent. Rumors about this appeared last week.

The story of Destiny 2 sounds more and more interesting. Bungie announces that its project will be completely removed from the service Battle.net . On PC, the game will appear exclusively on Steam.

Valve stopped juggling release dates on Steam. Now game developers will not be able to postpone the release of the game in the store without Valve’s approval.

The sichgraphs user on Reddit showed changes in the top 10 most visited Steam titles over the past decade. The statistics he collected are presented in the video.

Epic Games has taken care of Kickstarter backers who are unhappy that the games they funded are leaving Steam and becoming exclusives of the Epic Games Store. All the refands to the players will be carried out by the latter.

It was recently reported that the new version of Ubuntu 19.10 for Linux will no longer support the Steam launcher. To solve this problem, the authors of the OS decided to use a more conservative approach to development, and it will save the store for Ubuntu.