Little-known, underground indie videogame platform Steam sure is doing well for itself. The service recently hit a new historical high of 41,666,455 players online at once, per the stoic record-keepers over at SteamDB. That's just a little over the population of Canada and a whole lot higher than the last time it graced our pages for breaking a concurrents record, which was last year when it hit a paltry, piddling, barely noticeable 35 million online users.
The new high score was hit, as you might expect, over a weekend. Last Sunday, to be precise: October 12, with a touch over 13 million players actually in-game. I'd venture to suggest that the release of Battlefield 6 had at least something to do with it. Last weekend was BF6's first, and with DICE's FPS currently a comfortable #14 on the Steam concurrent charts itself, there's likely some overlap there.
