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Valve, the PC powerhouse, has announced that developers will face "fewer constraints" regarding platform verification compared to the Steam Deck.

It has been reported that as a result, 1,194 games have been removed from the PlayStation Store.

Maciej Gołębiowski, the managing director of the PC platform GOG, has cautioned that developers and publishers may produce fewer new games if they are required to maintain these titles online indefinitely.

It has been reported that 1,194 games have been removed from the PlayStation Store

This is only on Steam. Wishlists on console stores were not included in the statistics

The year 2025 turned out to be rich in high-quality games from teams with Russian roots. More than seven projects were released, earning over a million dollars on Steam. According to our forecasts, 2026 will be even richer in releases. We have compiled a list of games developed in Russian that have already gained over 200,000 wishlists

We continue to wrap up the year 2025 with gaming teams. Up next is an interview with Igor Ilyukhin, the Chief Operating Officer of Far Far Games

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is currently one of the most popular games by Devolver Digital on Steam

Valve has surpassed its previous concurrent user record on its digital gaming platform, Steam, once more

Recently, the analytical service Steam250 published a list of the 250 games that were best received by Steam users in 2025. It assigned each game a score based on the number of reviews and approval rating.

The year 2026 has already set a new online record for Steam. According to the service SteamDB, on the evening of January 11, there were 42,042,778 people on the platform at the same time.

On January 9, one of the first notable releases of 2026, Pathologic 3, was launched. Within just a few days of its debut, the Steam version of the game achieved a "mostly positive" rating.

We continue to sum up the results of 2025 with gaming teams. Next up is an interview with Kirill Oreshkin, co-founder of Polden Publishing.

In 2025, the top five most played games on the PlayStation 5 in the United States remained consistent with the previous year, with Fortnite maintaining the leading position.

1047 Games, the developer behind the newly launched Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, has addressed reports concerning the game's performance on Steam.

Since the premiere of the second season of Amazon's Fallout series, the number of concurrent players on Steam for Fallout 4 has increased twofold

In the year 2026, we continue to summarize the previous year together with gaming teams or those related to the gaming industry. Up next is an interview with Ilya Ulyanov, the Director of Business Development at RuStore

Enhanced review scores on Steam may result in improved ad performance, especially when developers take community feedback into account for premium games

Albert Penello, a veteran of Xbox, has died at 53

The recipients of the 2025 Steam Awards have been revealed, with Hollow Knight: Silksong securing the title of Game of the Year

CD Projekt RED (CDPR), a well-known developer and publisher, has sold the GOG distribution platform to one of its original founders for 90.7 million Polish zlotys, which is approximately $25 million or £18.6 million

The Steam team has released lists of the most successful games on the platform for 2025.

The new owner of the digital store will be one of the founders of CD PROJEKT, Michał Kiciński.

The new owner of the digital store will be one of the founders of CD PROJEKT, Michał Kiciński (Michał Kiciński)

We have prepared a detailed list of games from Russian or formerly Russian teams whose projects achieved significant sales on Steam this year. The list is substantial. As a bonus, there's also a list of the runners-up

The game reached this milestone a week after the announcement.

It will start appearing not only at the top of the search results page but also at the bottom.

Analyzing the situation in the domestic digital PC distribution market: the key players, their approaches to monetization and user acquisition, as well as the challenges they face that hinder them from competing with the global platform monopolist

The majority of the amount was generated by the company over the past three months

Now it ranks 610th on the list of most anticipated games on the platform.

The purchase cost $103.8 million

At the end of October, Bloomberg reported, citing sources, that Microsoft aimed to increase the profitability of its gaming division to 30%—a very high figure. Two months later, the corporation refuted the rumors

This conclusion was reached by analysts from Alinea Analytics.

This conclusion was reached by analysts from Alinea Analytics.

As we approach Christmas, we continue to summarize the year with experts in the gaming market. Next up is an interview with Lev Kobelev and Alexander Barabanov, authors of the analytical service SteamTrender.

Steam has introduced a special page featuring personal summaries for the year 2025. In addition to individual statistics, you can view some general figures related to the platform. For example, how the total gaming time of Steam users was distributed among projects from different years.

The Game Awards took place on December 11. It's the perfect time to summarize and take a look at the games that gained the most from the show. Today's article features a lot of data and charts on the sales of the winners, wishlists of announced titles, and the growth of metrics for older releases in the wake of new sequel trailers

On the evening of December 16, GFA Games released the multiplayer shooter PIONER in early access: in Rostelecom's store for residents of Russia and Belarus, and on Steam for residents of other countries. The game's debut was less than stellar.

Traditionally, as January approaches, we summarize the outgoing year with representatives from gaming and related companies. Up next is an interview with Sergey Zanin, co-founder and CEO of Alawar.

The last few days have been notable for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 due to an increase in online activity on Steam. It has reached a noticeable level, although not a record one.

Exactly one month ago, on November 15, 2025, the full release of Escape from Tarkov took place. On this occasion, we decided to turn to VG Insights data and take a look at the extraction shooter's performance on Steam.

Ahead of the New Year, the SteamDB service shared its observations on Steam. It estimated that in the incomplete year of 2025, a record number of games were released on Valve's platform—19.2 thousand. However, nearly half of them attracted almost no interest.

Matt Booty, the leader of Xbox Game Studios, has indicated that the company is consistently assessing its pricing strategy for new game releases

The game has been absent from the Google Play Store since August 2020.

The founder of the analytical service GameDiscoverCo, Simon Carless, examined how the release of games on Steam unfolded after leaving Early Access in 2025. He discovered that the majority of them failed to surpass their initial performance.

Simon Carless, the founder of the analytical service GameDiscoverCo, reviewed the releases of games on Steam that exited early access in 2025. He found that the vast majority of them failed to surpass their initial performance

Shuhei Yoshida, previously the leader of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, has stated that game developers in Japan are struggling to match the speed of their counterparts in China.

Veterans from PlayStation London Studio, Disney Interactive, and Square Enix have established a new studio.

Recently, the Google Play and RuStore teams shared their lists of the best games of the year. Now it's Apple's turn.

The number of game copies sold in the network's stores is not disclosed