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.

Looks like it’s time for Steam to step aside. The Discord gaming messenger has launched a beta version of its own store and promises good support to indie developers who will release their games first in this store.

Indie studio Failbetter Games, which created the Fallen London and Sunless Sea projects, came up with a flash mob #loveindies with an appeal to support independent developers. During the week of the flash mob, the guys received 95 new reviews for their games.

Quick sales will reappear on Steam two years after Valve canceled this feature. Developers will be able to choose for how many hours the cost of the title will be reduced.

The PC version of the multiplayer RPG Fallout 76 will be distributed only through the service Bethesda.net , the game will not appear on Steam.

Now users who purchase questionable products from the Steam Store will receive notifications from the store before the transaction. This is how Valve fights the trade in fake game items.

The Abstractism platformer, which could be purchased on Steam, installed Trojans on players’ computers and used them for mining cryptocurrencies. Perhaps it was all some kind of subtle trolling.

It seems that the new update of the indie adventure No Man’s Sky has brought the game back to life. Having lost almost the entire audience, the game returned to the top 10 popular titles on Steam.

Games with erotic content are temporarily not allowed to be released on Steam – until Valve completes a filtering system that will allow players to exclude such projects from the issue.

Valve prefers to stay away from what is happening on the Steam forums, and sometimes this leads to sad results. Grace Carroll, who is responsible for SMM at Creative Assembly, told how the Total War community became toxic without moderation and how it was fixed.

A new Steam update and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for Dutch and Belgian players have been released. Gamers are not allowed to open loot boxes on their own, but you are welcome to buy their contents in the Steam market.

The tab with games not yet released on Steam has been improved and renamed to “Popular Future Products”. Now this list will be formed taking into account the interests of a particular user to make the search more productive. The developers recognized that when the list was simply replenished with all future titles, it was practically useless.

At the last session , White Nights performed Jean-Peter Ewert, who deals with business development and legal issues of Steam. He talked about how the platform works now. We offer a recording from the speech, which also included his comment about Steam Spy.

Using a loophole in the statistics of gaming achievements, Ars Technica calculated the approximate number of game owners on Steam. The most popular game in the store turned out to be Team Fortress 2, which has more than 50 million owners.

Before the end of the summer sale, Steam published a list of the best-selling and launching games of the season. What projects were included there?