A successful video game is a difficult thing to measure when you're outside the video game industry looking in. The video game industry has always had a transparency problem, and the inner workings of ...

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TL;DR: Valve's Steam set a new concurrent player record with over 42 million users on January 11, 2026, highlighting its growth as the leading PC gaming platform. Popular titles like Counter-Strike 2 ...

Bungie's extraction shooter has burned through a massive development budget while hemorrhaging players since March. With only ...

Steam hits a new record in concurrent player count and gamers take this chance to reflect on the news about layoffs at the Epic Games studio. The post “Competition is incompetent” Users shoot back at ...

Another weekend, another Steam record, with the numbers suggesting that this surge isn’t a one-off. Steam has set yet another concurrent user record, pushing past the 42 million mark and continuing a ...

Crimson Desert has hit a new Steam concurrent player peak during its second weekend, after another game-changing update brought a raft of improvements to the open world action adventure.

A PC game that is completely free on Steam as a free-to-play game recently surpassed 200,000 concurrent players. More specifically, the free Steam game posted 201,930 concurrent players, which means ...

There was really no chance Hollow Knight: Silksong wasn’t going to be a major hit for Team Cherry; the only question was how much of a hit it was going to be. We no longer need to guess, because the ...

Battlefield 6 is the franchise's biggest ever game on Steam, clocking up over 700,000 concurrent players within 24 hours of its debut. While also available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S — the ...