Valve has introduced a new tool for working with price tags on Steam. As part of this announcement, she also introduced new recommended price tags. For a number of countries, they turned out to be much higher than the previous ones.

The company did not explain how often this will happen. But Valve has said it wants to keep up with changes in the global economy.

In particular, it is now possible to track in real time on Steam which games earn the most and which games attract the most simultaneous users.

Such conclusions were reached by gaming expert Simon Carless (Simon Carless). He analyzed the available data on Steam Deck shipments and told whether indie developers should adapt their games for a portable PC from Valve.

There was information that at one time Activision Blizzard was negotiating the purchase of Dota 2. The deal did not take place. One of the reasons is that the parties did not agree on the price.

Today, on March 18, developers and authors of content for the Steam workshop began to receive notifications from Valve stating that “due to current events, it is impossible to send bank payments to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.”

Valve has summed up the results of 2021 for its digital Steam store. In many ways, it was more successful than the previous year. For example, the platform has increased the number of active users, and those, in turn, have spent more money on games.

Over the weekend, the first full-fledged Steam Deck reviews began to appear on the network. Many reviewers praise the device for its performance in AAA games, an open operating system, and sometimes call it a new word in the portable gaming market. One of the main advantages is the ability to easily emulate titles from old PlayStation and Nintendo Switch.

Game marketing consultant Chris Zukowski explained why developers need to get the first 10 reviews on Steam as soon as possible. This is the key bar, after which the store’s algorithms notice any game and can significantly increase its visibility in the store.Zhukovsky told about this in a small thread on his Twitter page.

Steam has set another record. According to the VG Insights platform, more than 11 thousand new games appeared in the Valve store last year. Now an average of 30 titles are launched on the site every day. However, most of them are developed by small indie teams that have become even more active in releasing games since the beginning of the pandemic.General data

Game marketing consultant Chris Zukowski shared data on how many vishlist developers usually receive in the first two weeks after the launch of the game page on Steam. He talked about the averages and explained why low performance at the start does not guarantee failure.A small analysis by Zhukovsky is based on data on 58 games on Steam.

According to gaming expert Simon Carless, the number of copies sold and the revenue of the game on Steam can be roughly calculated based on the number of user reviews. It turned out that in October, only 1.5% of the total number of new releases sold over 40,000 copies in the first seven days.Carless shared his thoughts in the latest issue of his newsletter.

It seems that Valve is set against blockchain games. According to the updated Steam rules, titles with NFT will not be allowed in the store. This also applies to projects already placed on the site.Age of Rust

Jeff Strain, the former founder of ArenaNet and Undead Labs, has announced the opening of a new studio, Possibility Space. She will create an online project and work remotely with developers around the world. The team has already been joined by former employees of companies such as Ubisoft, Valve and Oculus.Possibility Space has already raised funds from the Transcend Fund and the Louisiana Economic Development Fund.

Today Valve has introduced a big update for Steam, previously available as part of the beta test. The main innovations are the improved download manager and the storage management process. Games from the library are now easier to move between folders and drives.Key changes

Valve has announced that Steam Deck devkits are ready to ship. The company started accepting applications from developers and clarified that the number of devkits is limited.

A few years ago, the indie apocalypse almost turned Steam into a “garbage dump”. Valve managed to defeat the invasion of low-quality games, while continuing to let everyone into its store. However, due to the new Steam algorithms, small titles actually have no place left on the site. Marketing consultant Chris Zukowski told about this problem in his material for the website How To Market A Game.

Tens of thousands of games are available on Steam today. Thanks to the new free tool, you can now view all the engines and technologies that developers used to create projects for this site.The project was developed by Lars Doucet, co-founder of the Level Up Labs studio, together with the SteamDB website.

Last summer, the “Games to Be” demo festival was held on Steam for the first time. Since then, Valve has held three more such events. In its blog, the company told how they affected the number of vishlist and game sales.