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At the end of the week from January 7 to 14, the leader of the top-grossing products chart on Steam was once again Counter-Strike 2, topping the rankings for the fifth consecutive time. Meanwhile, Marvel Rivals took the second place

After a short holiday break, we’re back with our weekly roundup of the top-grossing games on Steam. Here are the key changes on the charts over the past seven days.

A month ago, Steam users gained the opportunity to add the MMO shooter PIONER to their wishlist. According to GFA Games studio, since then, 100,000 people have added the game to their wishlists

Shortly after the start of its first season, Marvel Rivals broke its concurrent player record. NetEase’s hero shooter continues to show strong retention.

The Director of Business Development at the American studio World's Edge, Will McCahill, analyzed the level of positivity in user reviews on Steam from 2014 to 2024. According to his observations, the reviews have become more negative over time, and this is true for all languages

The British publisher Slitherine and the Russian studio Steel Balalaika announced that the real-time strategy game Broken Arrow has been added to over 800,000 Steam users' wishlists

The upcoming RTS wargame Broken Arrow, developed by Steel Balalaika, is set to launch in June. It continues to strengthen its position among Steam’s most wishlisted games.

We continue our review of 2024 together with top managers and experts from the games industry (and related fields). Up next is an interview with Patrik Wilkens, Vice President of Business Development at TheSoul Publishing.

LG Electronics has teamed up with Xbox to make the Xbox App available on LG Smart TVs.

We continue our review of 2024 together with top managers and experts from the games industry (and related fields). Up next is an interview with Alex Izotov, CEO of Digital Vortex.

2024 has once again been a record year for Steam across a variety of metrics. So we’ve done some data crunching to look back at the top games over the past 12 months, highlight the biggest winners, sum up key trends, and dive into other data about the state of the platform as a whole.

We continue summarizing the results of 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams and experts. Next up is an interview with Evgeny Maurus, the founder of AppQuantum

Owners of the PlayStation Portal portable streaming console are most active at 9:00 PM. This was revealed in an interview with journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File by Hiromi Wakai, Vice President of Product Management at Sony Interactive Entertainment

The indie card hit Balatro has set a new record for concurrent players on Steam. On the night of December 27, its peak online presence on the platform reached 38,506 people.

11 bit studios CEO Przemysław Marszał has opened up about the shutdown of Project 8. He also outlined the company’s plans for the coming years and changes to its publishing strategy.

The start of the Winter Sale has brought many older games back to the top of the Steam charts. However, no game managed to dethrone Counter-Strike 2 from its leading position.

The highest-grossing game on Steam for the past week is once again Counter-Strike 2. However, in light of discounts from the winter sale and other factors, the rest of the chart underwent quite a few changes

Valve has shared the top Steam games of 2024 by gross revenue, concurrent player count, and other metrics. Let’s take a closer look at this year’s biggest titles on the platform.

Valve has summarized 2024 for Steam and published the lists of the most successful games on the platform for the outgoing year

GOG has reportedly cut dozens of jobs recently. Here are new details about the situation at CD Projekt’s subsidiary and the shortcomings of its business strategy.

Recently, Valve launched a special section on Steam where each user can view their gaming statistics for 2024. Some of the data in the section is compared with the entire Steam community

Former and current employees of the gaming platform GOG spoke to the Polish publication CD Action about the working environment in their division. They claim that CD PROJEKT regularly conducts large-scale layoffs at GOG every two to three years, with the most recent occurring two months ago

GameDiscoverCo has put together a list of best-selling video games of 2024 on Steam and consoles. Let’s take a closer look at the expected leaders and some surprise winners.

The Nintendo Switch has become the second best-selling console in the American market of all time, according to analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana. Until recently, this title belonged to the PlayStation 2.

Simon Carless from GameDiscoverCo calculated how many wishlists on Steam were gathered from December 12-15 by the games whose trailers were shown at The Game Awards 2024 ceremony

Game expert Simon Carless, utilizing data from his service GameDiscoverCo, has summarized the year. He compiled charts of the most successful paid new releases of 2024 on the major platforms — PC, PlayStation, and Xbox

We continue to review the results of 2024 with gaming (or gaming industry-related) teams. Up next is an interview with representatives from Door 407, including the studio's founders Oleg Sakharov and Andrey Belousov, as well as its marketing director Stas Ignatov

The SteamDB service published a list of the top-grossing products on Steam for the week of December 10 to 17. Counter-Strike 2 claimed the first spot, pushing the previous leader, Path of Exile 2, to second place.

With no major new releases, the Steam charts leaders have remained largely unchanged. However, many older games have returned to the top spots thanks to new updates or other factors.

The launch of the Omens of Tyranny update has seen a surge of interest among the Helldivers 2 community. The game is now enjoying impressive CCU numbers and very positive feedback.

The SteamDB service, which tracks game metrics on Steam, has published a list of the most warmly received new releases of the year on the Valve platform.

SteamDB has shared a list of the top games of 2024 by user rating. There are plenty of indie hits on the list, with Black Myth: Wukong being the only AAA title to make it into the top 10.

The Google Play Store team has warned developers that it will soon stop processing payments worldwide intended for owners of Russian bank accounts. The restriction will take effect in two weeks on December 26, 2024

Cooldown Games, a newly established publisher created by a team of industry veterans, aims to deliver premium games to both PC and console platforms.

AFK Journey, What If…? An Immersive Story, Squad Busters, Thank Goodness You're Here!, and Balatro+ are among the apps that have secured a place on Apple's list of App Store Award winners for 2024

The publisher Game Seer shared the successes of Half Sword with GameDiscoverCo. This is the debut project of the studio Half Sword Games.

Developers from China are investing significant amounts of money in advertising their games and applications on the Russian marketplace RuStore. According to VK's calculations, from January to November 2024, they spent over 60 million rubles on promotion through the "VK Advertising" platform.

Following its successful Early Access launch, Path of Exile 2 has become the highest-grossing game on Steam globally.

We continue to wrap up the year 2024 with teams in the gaming (or game-related) industry. Up next is an interview with Anton Mikhailov, the creative director of the indie studio Tortuga Team

Dauntless has reached its release on Steam five years after its original launch. Users have received it, to put it mildly, coldly. Currently, Dauntless has an "overwhelmingly negative" rating on Steam with only 14% positive reviews.

Grinding Gear Games has achieved another milestone. Path of Exile 2 topped the list of highest-grossing products on Steam for the week of December 3 to 10.

In an article for Game World Observer, Appodeal Publishing shares three proven user acquisition (UA) strategies to help mobile devs and publishers make the most of the holidays. There’re also insights into how Join Blocks used these strategies to increase installs by 6x and revenue by 300% during Christmas.

Grinding Gear Games has finally released a sequel to its successful action RPG Path of Exile. Let’s take a closer look at its impressive metrics.

Wishlists are one of the key metrics that developers pay attention to when preparing to launch their games. Here’s an interesting new analysis of how wishlists are converting to sales, and what that says about the state of Steam in general.

Unlike many recent Game-as-a-Service launches, Marvel Rivals has gotten off to a good start. The question is whether NetEase’s new hero shooter can retain its audience in the long term.

Tencent has high hopes for its new live service shooter Delta Force. And early metrics of its Open Beta are promising, though the launch has been marred by mixed reviews from players.

On December 6, the release of Marvel Rivals, a team-based action game featuring Marvel heroes developed by the Chinese company NetEase, took place on PC and consoles. According to service SteamDB, shortly after its release, the Steam version of the project alone managed to attract over 444,000 concurrent players at its peak

On the night of December 4th to 5th, the open beta test for Delta Force, a tactical shooter by Team Jade, a subsidiary of the Chinese giant Tencent, launched on PC. The game received a mixed reception on Steam.

A court in the United Kingdom has allowed a class-action lawsuit against Apple Corporation. This concerns the commission rate in the App Store.

Many older hits have seen a surge in revenue on Steam thanks to the Autumn Sale. Here are the most notable changes on the charts over the past seven days.