The online survival simulator in the Conan the Barbarian universe Conan Exiles took less than a month to sell 480 thousand copies.

Video streaming service Twitch will start selling games and game content this spring. Viewers will be able to buy games directly during the broadcasts of their gameplay.

A series of innovations in the Steam game store has improved the visibility of programs, payment conversion and sales. Valve shared specific figures.

On February 14, White Nights will host a session with Chet Faliszek, one of Valve’s leading screenwriters and a VR specialist on the Steam platform. We invite him to ask interesting questions so that he can answer them publicly at the conference.

The founder of Steam entered the Top 400 richest Americans according to Forbes. His fortune was estimated at $4.1 billion.

The Russian value added tax on Steam was included in the price of the product: the store deducts the tax not from users, but from itself and developers.

Sergey Galenkin in his blog on Medium spoke in detail about the results of 2016 on Steam. With the author’s permission, we publish a translation of his article.

We tell you about the studios whose games are or have been Greenlighted on Steam. The first material is about the Double Dice Games team and its Willy–Nilly Knight project. The project is a role–playing game with a turn-based combat system and a plot of 40 thousand words.

After 3.6 million downloads on mobile, HeroCraft is porting a tactical strategy with elements of the Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf card battler to PC and changing its monetization.

Over the current year, more than 4,000 games have been published in the Steam digital game store. This is more than a third of the total number of projects on Steam.

The world’s largest digital game store has significantly changed its design. It is stated that thanks to the innovations, the user “will get even more control over the content of his page.”

A major Steam update is coming soon. Valve recommends that developers prepare for it and work on screenshots for games so that they can then be shown on the store’s homepage.

The gaming web portal and mobile publisher Kongregate has announced the start of expansion on Steam and has already released the first game on the Valve platform.

About the sales results of Gremlins, Inc on Steam, — the producer of the project Sergey Klimov told in the blog of the game on the platform. We share a short version of the material.

About the most trending Steam games — in our report. This time the Top 10 is headed by Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location.

In less than two months, the number of one-time players in No Man’s Sky on Steam has decreased from 212 thousand to 2 thousand.

Charlie Oscar studio launched an annual bundle on Steam together with five other teams and explained App2Top.ru why I took this step.

The ratings given by users to games on Steam are no longer taken into account if access to projects was obtained through a digital key.

About the most trending Steam games – in our weekly report. This time the top is headed by Seasons after Fall. In second place is the domestic development – The Final Station.