At the beginning of the week, the authors of the Songs of Conquest turn-based strategy inspired by Heroes of Might and Magic announced that the game will reach release on May 20, 2024. After that, gamers began to actively add the title to their wish lists.
On the evening of April 26, the medieval town planner Manor Lords was released in early access — the most desired game on Steam in recent times, which has collected more than 3 million vishlist. His online immediately grew to huge values.
Manor Lords, which was the most wishlisted upcoming game on Steam, has just launched in Early Access. It has already amassed a huge audience in just the first few hours, so let’s take a closer look at the numbers.
Microsoft has published a report for the third quarter of fiscal 2024 (January-March 2024). According to him, Activision Blizzard helped the gaming division of the corporation achieve impressive revenue growth.
Analyst Serkan Toto from Kantan Games has compiled the top 9 best Western mobile game publishers in terms of revenue in the Japanese market.
Valve has just updated Steam’s refund policy. It will now count playtime even before the game’s global release date, making it more difficult for players to abuse the system.
Valve has made changes to the refund policy on Steam. She began to take into account the time spent by the user in the game during the extended access period.
No Rest for the Wicked had a strong debut on the Steam charts, outperforming many popular premium and free-to-play titles. Let’s take a close look the top games by gross revenue for the previous week.
The new Moon Studios game has become one of the highest-grossing projects on Steam over the past week. No Rest for the Wicked started from the fifth place in the Steam sales chart, taking into account free games. If you exclude them, then she will be in third place.
Gas Station Simulator has reached a new milestone. Polish developer DRAGO entertainment has revealed that the game has generated over $10 million in revenue on Steam alone since its launch in September 2021.
The Early Access version No Rest for the Wicked, a new action RPG from Moon Studios, launched on Steam last week. Despite technical issues and initially mixed reception from players, the game has already managed to reach a relatively large audience.
Polish studio DRAGO Entertainment has announced a new achievement of the tanker simulator Gas Station Simulator. According to the developers, since the release, the total revenue of the Steam version of the game and add-ons for it has exceeded $ 10 million.
French publisher PulluP Entertainment (formerly Focus Entertainment) summed up the financial year ended March 31, 2024. We have selected the main thing from the report.
On April 18, Private Division publishing house and Moon Studios released the No Rest for the Wicked role-playing game in early Steam access. Within a few hours, she surpassed the previous Private Division projects in terms of peak online on the site.
The indie horror about the game of "Russian roulette" Buckshot Roulette took two weeks to sell a million copies on Steam. This was announced by its developer Mike Klubnika and publisher CRITICAL REFLEX.
The premiere of the series from Amazon and large discounts significantly increased Fallout sales on Steam. According to the results of the last week, five games of the series were included in the top 100 highest-grossing products on Steam at once.
Medieval town planner Manor Lords topped the top of the most desired games in the Steam store, overtaking Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Frostpunk 2. According to the publisher of Hooded Horse, the title was added to the wish list of 2.5 million people.
On April 11, the premiere of the serial adaptation of Fallout from Amazon took place. According to the SteamDB service, against this background, all games in the series have grown online on Steam.
VG Insights recently released a report on the state of free-to-play games on Steam. It takes a deep into the most played titles and the main trends in the area.
World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2 and other Blizzard Entertainment games will return to the Chinese market this summer. The company has signed a new publishing agreement with NetEase.
Landfall’s surprise title Content Warning made a strong debut on the Steam charts, surpassing many successful games in terms of gross revenue. Let’s take a closer look at how different projects performed on the platform last week.
At the end of March, Embracer Group announced the imminent sale of Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two Interactive for $460 million. However, she decided to keep a number of assets, among which was a part of Gearbox Publishing — Gearbox Publishing San Francisco. Now this division will be called Arc Games.
We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investment or a publisher. Next up is material from Konstantin Sakhnov's Vengeance Games studio, which is preparing to launch a mix of a visual novel and a quest "Azrael, Messenger of Death".
Released in honor of the first of April, the cooperative horror Content Warning is selling great. The game debuted from the fifth place on the chart of the highest-grossing games on Steam, ahead of PUBG in weekly sales: BATTLEGROUNDS, Dragon's Dogma 2 and Baldur's Gate 3.
Journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File spoke with Michael Douse, head of the publishing department at Larian Studios, about the current state of the gaming industry. We chose the main thing from the interview.
On April 4, the global release of Buckshot Roulette took place. This is a horror game from an Estonian solo developer, which immediately resembles the narrative of Inscryption and the creations of Yoko Taro.
The premium version of Dwarf Fortress is approaching an impressive milestone of 1 million copies sold. And the Adams brothers have no plans to stop developing their life’s project.
It appears that Tameem Antoniades has left Ninja Theory. One of the creative leads behind the original Hellblade is no longer with the studio he co-founded more than 20 years ago.
Cubic Games has announced the launch of the desktop version of the Pixel Gun 3D free-to-play shooter. Before the release, she had been collecting vishlists for more than six months. I have collected almost half a million.
Another week, another edition of Steam’s weekly top sellers chart. With Helldivers 2 still dominating other premium games, let’s take a look at titles that saw their gross revenue increase and decrease the most week-over-week.
Capcom announced that Dragon's Dogma 2 has crossed the 2.5 million copies sold milestone in less than two weeks: the role-playing game was released on March 22.
Thunderful Group has announced that Headup Games is coming under the control of Microcuts Holding, a company headed by Dieter Schoeller, founder and CEO of Headup Games.
Polygon journalists talked with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer about what is happening in the gaming industry and the future of Microsoft's gaming business. We have collected the main points from the interview.
Xbox might be in “real trouble” as a hardware manufacturer, according to GamesIndustry.biz head Christopher Dring. And some third-party publishers reportedly wonder whether it is worth making versions of their games for Microsoft’s console.
The role-playing action game Dragon's Dogma 2 topped the chart of the highest—grossing premium games on Steam over the past week, shifting Helldivers 2 from the top. However, Capcom's novelty failed to get to the first place in the overall chart, which also takes into account free games - Counter-Strike 2 is leading it for the second week in a row.
Capcom now has another successful release in its portfolio, with Dragon’s Dogma having a strong debut on the Steam charts. Let’s take a look at the best-selling titles on the platform over the past week.
Microsoft has "big problems" with retaining publishers on Xbox consoles, according to journalist Christopher Dring from GamesIndustry.biz . According to him, some large gaming companies do not see prospects for Xbox support.
We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investments or a publisher. Next up is material from the Russian indie studio Dieselduck, which is developing a game about traveling on the airship "Nephelia: Through the Clouds".
Border guard sim Contraband Police has reached an impressive new milestone a year after its launch. The game has now sold over 800k copies globally.
On the night of March 22, Capcom released Dragon’s Dogma 2 on Steam and consoles. The game instantly garnered thousands of angry reviews.
The head of Larian Studios, Sven Vincke, criticized the heads of gaming companies for mass layoffs at the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony. He called the constant pursuit of profit the root of the problem and called for breaking the vicious circle.
Horizon Forbidden West has just been released on Steam. So it is time to take a closer look at the launch numbers for another PlayStation game port for PC.
GDEV gaming company (formerly Nexters) has summarized the unaudited financial results of both the fourth quarter and the entire 2023. We share the main thing from the report.
On March 19, the PC version of Stardew Valley received patch 1.6 with several hundred changes and a large portion of new content. The release of the update shook up the community, and as a result, online games on Steam grew to an all-time high of 146,159 people.
Within just hours after the release of (massive) patch 1.6, Stardew Valley has set a new record for peak concurrent players on Steam. The game is doing better than ever, even eight years after its launch.
The publisher of Playstack and the developer of LocalThunk, in an interview with gaming expert Simon Carless, discussed the success of the already hit poker "bagel" Balatro. We chose the main thing from the conversation.
The ongoing Spring Sale has helped many older games return to the top positions on the Steam charts. Here are the best-selling titles on the platform by gross revenue over the past seven days.
Valve has updated its game sharing features by launching Steam Families. It will replace the Steam Family Sharing and Steam Family View tools, introducing major improvements along with several limitations.
The Helldivers 2 cooperative shooter has been leading the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam since the beginning of February, but it lost ground in the week from March 12 to March 19. In the general chart, which takes into account the Steam Deck and free games, it was bypassed by Counter-Strike 2.
Valve has added a new set of family features to the beta version of the Steam client, allowing users to share access to games - family groups. They replaced Steam Family Sharing and the family browsing feature.
