It is quite possible that all future Ubisoft projects will also not be released on Steam.

Last year, Valve allowed the publication of adult games on Steam. One such game — Mirror — was among the most highly rated titles of last year. 18 thousand reviews were left for the game, and 97% of them are positive.

Steam has published data on which new items in each individual month of 2018 were distinguished by high sales. We have identified projects developed or published by Russian-speaking companies.

It rotates unreleased games according to the number of users who added them to the “vishlist”.

Many developers welcomed the news of the launch of the Epic Games Store positively. But there are alternative opinions. Developer of the indie project Cook, Serve, Delicious! David Galindo believes that the recently launched Epic Games Store is not a competitor to Steam and is generally not needed by anyone except developers.

No sooner had the Epic Games Store launched than several publishers and developers turned away from Valve. They postpone their releases on Steam or leave the site altogether.

Valve responded to indie developers who complained about declining sales due to falling traffic from their games on Steam.

Recently, Valve has managed to annoy a lot of indie developers. Now they are massively expressing their claims to the company and its Steam store on social networks. App2Top translated a selection of opinions of independent studios compiled by the publication Gamesindustry.biz .

Indie developers complain about the decline in sales of their games on Steam. The reason is a sharp drop in traffic.

Valve has introduced new shares in the distribution of sales revenue. The store will receive a smaller percentage from projects that earn more than $10 million.

This Wednesday, November 28, it became known about the conclusion of a deal between Valve and the leadership of Shanghai. The parties agreed to launch the official Chinese version of Steam.

CrossCode from Radical Fish Games has left Steam’s early access. Developer Felix Klein told Gamasutra portal about how the storyline single managed to maintain popularity in three years in early access. We give an extract from his interview.

The Kartridge game store has entered an open beta test. The store was created specifically for indie developers.

The number of monthly active Steam users has reached 90 million. Valve representatives told about this at the Melbourne Games Week conference.

Be afraid of your desires. A good example of the phrase is the history of cosmosim Evolution. In the course of a series of misadventures, an indie game that no one needed for two years suddenly took 180,000 players online.

On Steam, the leader in the number of sales over the past week was a game that is focused exclusively on the Chinese audience and has no English localization.

On September 8, 2017, the royal battle of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) broke the mark of 1 million users who are in the game at the same time. Since that day, her online has never dropped below.

In 2018, the trend towards decentralization of digital PC retail has become more noticeable. More and more companies are leaving Steam and moving to their own sites. In parallel, near-gaming services have become more active. They set about launching their own grocery storefronts. We talked about the reasons for the current situation with experts of the gaming market: Sergey Galenkin, Ivan Pomytkin and Nikolai Bondarenko.

On the day of the release of Monster Hunter: World on Steam, 240 thousand gamers played the game at the same time. This is the biggest Steam release of 2018.