The hype around the release of patch 2.0 and the Phantom Liberty add-on allowed Cyberpunk 2077 to take first place in the list of the highest-grossing premium products on Steam over the past week.

The release of NBA 2K24 on Steam turned out to be very unsuccessful. The game was released on September 8 and to date has collected over 3 thousand negative reviews.

Action about the battles of giant robots Armored Core VI gave Starfield the first place in the top of the highest-grossing games on Steam over the past week. Both paid and freeplay titles were taken into account in the top.

Action about the battles of giant robots from FromSoftware topped the Steam top of the highest-grossing games over the past week (including taking into account fritupley titles). Before that, the top was headed by the role-playing hit Baldur’s Gate 3 for three weeks.

On August 10, Overwatch 2 was released on Steam, which became the first Blizzard Entertainment game on the Valve platform. Steam users met her coolly: now the project has 17% positive reviews.

Gaming expert Simon Carless tried to figure out how the New & Trending tab or “Popular New Items” on Steam works. We share his conclusions.

A small revolution in the digital PC distribution market. Blizzard will start posting its game titles on the Valve platform.

Recently it became known that Valve refuses to publish games on Steam, assets in which are created with the help of artificial intelligence. Several developers have told about this problem. Valve has now publicly commented on the situation.

Perhaps Steam has restrictions related to the use of artificial intelligence. Recently, a redditor under the nickname potterharry97 complained that his game was not allowed on the site due to the presence of AI-generated assets.

According to gaming expert Simon Carless, to do this, you need to multiply the number of subscribers on the Steam game page by a certain value. In his newsletter, he shared the current multipliers for 2023 (based on a survey of more than 125 developers):

Steam users are actively playing a low—poly analogue of Battlefield – indie shooter BattleBit Remastered for 254 players. On the night of June 20, its peak online on the Valve platform reached 61,390 people, according to SteamDB data.

From July 1, Steam disables support for “Google Analytics“. Apparently, in order to “sweeten the pill”, the platform promised to launch new tools for traffic analysis. About the upcoming innovations and the reaction of developers — in our material.

SteamDB service has published the top games that earned the most on Steam for the week from May 9 to May 16. It included Far Cry 6, which was released in the store last Thursday, and four Paradox Interactive projects were also placed in the top ten paid games at once.

On May 3, new rules for the placement of trailers began to take effect on Steam. Now developers can add a maximum of two videos before screenshots, all the others will be displayed at the end of the gallery.

Today, April 28, the release of the action Star Wars Jedi: Survivor took place. The game caused negative emotions among gamers: 75% of the reviews she received during the first hours on Steam were negative.

Gaming expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless) in the newsletter of the GameDiscoverCo portal told how the audience of PlayStation, Xbox and Steam was distributed across different countries. In all cases, Russia was at least in the top 15.

Steam users were disappointed with the remake of The Portopia Serial Murder Case, a new Square Enix game that added a neural network. Within a day of its release, it received 90% negative reviews.

Valve has announced that from January 1, 2024, the Steam client will no longer work on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems.

On the night of March 23-24, Capcom released a remake of Resident Evil 4. According to the SteamDB service, 11 hours after the release, the peak online game on Steam exceeded 124 thousand people. This is a record for the series.