The share of owners of the Oculus Rift VR headset in August increased by 8.1% compared to the previous month and reached 43.8% of the total number of owners of virtual reality helmets among Steam users.

The multiplayer shooter LawBreakers by Gears of War creator Cliff Blesinski is losing its audience — three weeks after the launch, the number of online players on Steam decreased from 3.5 thousand to 500 people.

The independent Steam statistics service Steam Spy suggests that fans of online shooters have become less likely to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive because of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds.

On August 27, the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battleground was able to overtake MOBA Dota 2 in terms of the number of gamers in the game at the same time, temporarily becoming the most popular game on Steam.

Valve intends to stop issuing Steam store game keys to the authors of “gambling-like projects” created for the sake of manipulating the trading platform’s capabilities.

Valve will stop uncontrollably issuing developers any number of game keys. The service explained this by fighting the sale of keys on third-party sites bypassing Steam.

The role-playing action Path of Exile has updated the attendance record, simultaneously gathering more than 98 thousand gamers on Steam after the release of The Fall of Oriath supplement on August 4.

The survival simulator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has risen to third place in the Steam service rating in terms of the number of online players for all time, 10 thousand ahead of the result of Fallout 4.

MMO survival simulator PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has overtaken GTA V in terms of the number of gamers who are simultaneously in the game on Steam.

Gearbox Software’s Battleborn MMO shooter is less and less interested in gamers — a year after the release, 100-200 players per hour gather in the game at the same time.

The Steam platform issued a refund to gamers in the amount of about $ 4.4 million for the Rust survival simulator. After the purchase, more than 330 thousand people refused the game.

Swedish developer and publisher Paradox Interactive will return the game price tags to the previous level after the mass dissatisfaction of gamers with the company’s policy.

The debut of the 7th part of the Tekken fighting game series on Steam surpassed the competitor in the Street Fighter V genre in the number of players by 28% – 18,743 against 14,155 gamers per hour on the launch day.

Steam Direct, a service for self—publishing games in the Valve store, began its work on June 13.

From January to May 2017, over 2 thousand games were hosted on the Steam platform. This was announced by the gaming industry columnist Daniel Ahmad on Twitter.

Valve has closed Steam Greenlight, a service for publishing games by independent developers on Steam that have gained sufficient user support.

11 million people have registered in the free multiplayer shooter Paladins for 8 months, according to the game developer Hi-Rez Studios.

Pirates can launch hacked games via Steam, disguising them as the work of the retro game Spacewar built into the service, the GytHyp website reports.

The new version of the Microsoft operating system allows the installation of software only from the official Windows Store.