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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

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

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

On a Monday afternoon, no less.

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

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.

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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

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

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

The storefront will apparently soon "track commitments"

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

Starfield's Steam account adds 'unknown app' prompting speculation that DLC is imminent

Changes to Starfield's SteamDB listing has prompted speculation that new DLC is on the way.

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Several fake Helldivers 2 scam listings appear on Steam in the dead of night, prompting Arrowhead to call in 500kg bomb-sized takedowns

Multiple fake Helldivers 2 listings recently went up on Steam, but Arrowhead and Valve were quick to give them the boot.

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The Meta Quest 3’s popularity is proof a cheap Vision Pro can’t come soon enough

There's a place for high-end VR headsets, but I hope they don't replace budget options – and the numbers show they won't.

A Dragon's Dogma 2 demo may be on the way, if the prophecy foretold by SteamDB proves true

But how long will it drag-on?

Latest SteamDB update suggests a Dragon's Dogma 2 demo could be imminent

SteamDB's latest update adds 'free on demand' app to Dragon's Dogma 2 listing, hinting a demo might be coming.

A game pretending to be The Day Before has appeared on Steam, and yeah, it's a scam

SteamDB says the game appeared six months ago as Carrot the Cat, and was also briefly named GTA Brasil.

Persona 3 Reload is the series' biggest Steam launch ever, but there's still no critical consensus on which version of the JRPG is best

Reload just hit 42,112 concurrent players

Palworld hits 200,000 concurrent PC players less than 24 hours after it launched in early access

And that isn't including Game Pass players

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New Elden Ring DLC listing hits Steam's backend, suggesting Shadow of the Erdtree's release date may be imminent

A new unknown DLC listing has been spotted on SteamDB. Could Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion be coming soon?

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