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Piranha Games will lay off employees after Mechwarrior 5: Clans 'performed below projections'

Parent company Enad Global 7 has also announced that EvilVEvil developer Toadman will be closed.

PC Gamer

Nearly 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024

You probably didn't play most of them.

PC Gamer

Path of Exile 2 has nearly doubled the first game's Steam player record and people can't even play yet – and apparently SteamDB crashed when everyone went to check

The action-RPG is already looking like a bonafide hit

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Mysterious Helldivers 2 update drops an Illuminate teaser so obvious that it's downright suspicious: "I wouldn't be surprised if they were just trolling us"

Are the Illuminate finally coming back?

GamesRadar

7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision games

The other games include Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

GamesRadar

No! Stay with me! – Rare and valuable sneak peeks into countless Steam games could dry up as "private branches" spread on SteamDB

SteamDB says private branches are being enabled for "some games"

GamesRadar

The Monster Hunter Wilds beta drew almost half a million concurrent Steam players in the first hour

If I was a Doshaguma, I'd start running.

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Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is trouncing the fighting game competition on Steam, with nearly double Street Fighter 6's all-time players record

You've Goku be kidding me.

PC Gamer

Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer

Valve seems to be working on Proton for ARM64 architecture.

Tom’s Hardware

Helldivers 2's latest update looks like it's gone down smooth, with player counts not seen since June—from a balance patch, no less

Sweet liberty.

PC Gamer

Space Marine 2 cruises past 225,000 concurrent users on Steam within hours of full release

On a Monday afternoon, no less.

PC Gamer

Steam surpasses 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever thanks to Black Myth: Wukong

Black Myth: Wukong helped drive Steam to a new concurrent user record this weekend.

PC Gamer

Valve and Sony's new hero shooters show the highs and lows of live service games, as Deadlock courts 64,000 players and Concord fails to reach 700 on Steam

PlayStation's Overwatch rival failed to inch past 700 concurrent PC players

GamesRadar

Borderlands 3 rockets up Steam's best-sellers chart to its highest concurrent player counts all year after the Borderlands movie's launch

An unintended side-effect

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Steam insider claims Valve is working on a system to ensure players get their season pass content

The storefront will apparently soon "track commitments"

PC Gamer

Somehow, the 11-year-old niche mil-sim Arma 3 managed to sell nearly 700,000 copies during the Steam Summer Sale

The summer sale also saw Arma 3's biggest one-day sales total ever.

PC Gamer

SteamDB's browser extension now lets you claim Steam discovery queue rewards without actually looking at your Steam discovery queue

This is a big boon for Steam trading card collectors.

PC Gamer

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Steam numbers have dwindled into the low hundreds, placing it side-by-side with Gotham Knights

No more anti-heroes.

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Evening Standard

A banana-clicking game is already this summer's biggest hit

A wave of banality (bananality?) has swept across the world with the success of Banana on PC platform Steam

PC Gamer

This is getting ridiculous: It looks like one of Deadlock's leakers has made it so you can see the unannounced Valve shooter's playtest concurrents, hero code names, and update history on SteamDB

It would take an unreasonable effort to fake this SteamDB entry.

TechRadar

It took one day for Hades 2 early access to beat the first game's all-time peak player count on Steam

Hades 2 Early Access has already beat Hades' all-time peak player count on Steam.

Windows Central

Rocksteady's 'Suicide Squad' game sinks to an all-time low player base, which doesn't bode well for the game's future

SteamDB reports that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's concurrent player base has sunk below 118 players, indicating that players have almost completely lost interest in the game.

PC Gamer

Nearly 9 years after release, Fallout 4 was one of the most played Steam games this weekend

It drew in over 160,000 players on Sunday.

PC Gamer

Fallout 76 hits an all-time player count record on Steam following the Fallout TV series on Amazon, and the other games are spiking too

All the games in the long-running Fallout series are enjoying a sudden surge in popularity.

Windows Central

Call of Duty sees a new peak player count on Steam following a free trial for Multiplayer and the launch of Season 3

The return of a popular Warzone map and a free trial for Season 3 content led to a jump in the Call of Duty player base, setting a new 24-hour peak record according to SteamDB.

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