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G2A Will Pay Compensation to Devs of Factorio
The sales platform G2A has pledged to compensate Factorio's developers, paying almost $40,000 for illegally obtained game keys. This is a result of actions taken by G2A and Wube Software almost a year ago.
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Damian Strozek
May 21, 2020
Rumors About Steam's Loyalty Program
Pavel Djundik from Steam Database reported of plans to introduce a loyalty program on Steam. This would translate into the possibility to exchange points to obtain virtual items, but also discounts in Valve's store.
hardware & software
Jacob Blazewicz
May 11, 2020
Great Quarter for EA and Activision - Cash Flowed in Streams
Financial reports of Activision and Electronic Arts have been published. Both made excellent profits, mainly from digital distribution, which accounts for the vast majority of revenues of both publishers.
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Adrian Werner
May 6, 2020
Call of Duty Beaten - New Digital Sales Record for Consoles
The SuperData analytics group published a report on global digital distribution in March. Last month turned out to be exceptionally good for the market, with great results of Doom Eternal, Half-Life: Alyx and Animal Crossing. The latter production broke the first month's digital sales record for console titles, set by Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII.
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Jacob Blazewicz
April 23, 2020
Epic Games Gives Up; Fortnite Launches on Google Play
Fortnite finally launched on Google Play, after a year and a half of distribution beyond this platform. This concession by Epic Games is the result of Google's policy to significantly hinder independent distribution.
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Jacob Blazewicz
April 22, 2020
Epic Games Store Presents Spring Releases
Epic Games has presented the list of spring releases on Epic Games Store. This includes a handful of intriguing indies, the first story DLC for Control, and the PC edition of Samurai Shodown.
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 23, 2020
Gabe Newell Comments on Competition From Epic Game Store
Gabe „Gaben” Newell commented on Steam's competition with Epic Games Store. He said that competition in the digital stores is necessary and beneficial for all, but criticized Apple's style approach and its „faceless bureaucrats” managing App Store.
hardware & software
Jacob Blazewicz
March 21, 2020
Full Version of Steam's Interactive Recommender Goes Live
The full version of Interactive Recommender, i.e. an interactive advisor who analyses our preferences and recommends games that fit them, has launched on Steam. Over the last several months the project has been tested within Steam Labs.
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Adrian Werner
March 19, 2020
Goat of Duty Available for Free
For the next two weeks, Goat of Duty will be available for free. The game is a unique shooter, in which we're fighting a bloody battles in the vein of Quake III, only playing as... mutant goats.
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Christian Pieniazek
March 17, 2020
30 days to Return Games on GOG.com; Company Updates Refund Policy
GOG.com has updated its refund policy. From now on, customers of the platform will be able to get a refund for the game they've bought on the website up to 30 days after the purchase, regardless of the time they've spent playing.
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Michael Kulakowski
February 26, 2020
Upgrade for Steam Search Engine Improves Price Filtering
The game search engine on Steam has experienced several improvements that have been tested as part of Steam Labs program. From now on, players can more easily choose the price range they are interested in, add or remove appropriate tags or search among games localized in their native language.
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Paul Wozniak
February 26, 2020
Steam Will Tell You Which Game You Should Play Next
Steam will offer the players a selection of games that may appeal to them. Everything will be supervised by artificial intelligence, which, based on the completed games of the user, will select similar ones from among those in the library.
hardware & software
February 14, 2020
In 2019, Steam Intervened in 44 Cases of Review Bombing
Valve has published a summary of 2019 on Steam. In addition to data on the platform's popularity and new features, the company has also revealed how many times it was forced to intervene in connection with review-bombing.
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Jacob Blazewicz
February 7, 2020
Steam Launch Date of Metro Exodus Confirmed
4A Games and Deep Silver confirmed when Metro Exodus will return to Steam. Epic Games' fierce opponents had to be patient for a whole year after the title was released.
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Christian Pieniazek
February 6, 2020
Polish Man Faces Nearly 9,000 Charges For Selling Multiple Game Accounts Access
A 24-year-old inhabitant of Poland has received nearly 9 thousand charges of illegal distribution of games. His idea was to buy digital versions of the games and then resell access to the account to many people.
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Milosz Szubert
February 5, 2020
Steam Sets New Record of Active Users
A two-year-old record of active users on Steam was broken yesterday. SteamDB informed that currently the best result is about 18.8 million. Of this, however, only 5.8 million accounts were actually playing.
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Paul Wozniak
February 3, 2020
Epic Games Store Blamed for Drop in PC Gaming Spending
Last year the Americans spent less on PC games than in 2018. According to analysts, one of the reasons for this was the increased competition in the digital distribution market caused by the aggressive expansion of Epic Games Store.
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Adrian Werner
January 27, 2020
The Power of Steam in Numbers - SteamDB Analysis
The creators of SteamDB scanned the account IDs on Steam, so that we can, among other things, find out how many fully registered users are on the platform currently. The data also shows the number of currently active profiles or accounts opened in a specific year.
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Paul Wozniak
January 25, 2020
Epic Games Store Extends Game Giveaway Until End of 2020
Epic Games has boasted the results of its digital distribution platform. Epic Games Store has had a successful year thanks to, e.g. exclusive titles and games for free. The latter action will continue this year.
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Jacob Blazewicz
January 14, 2020
Rockstar's Official Explanation for GTA 4 Disappearance From Steam
We've learned the reason why GTA IV can no longer be bought on Steam. It turns out that the fact that the PC version of the game was created for the now-unsupported Games for Windows Live platform is to blame. Currently Rockstar Games is looking for a solution to this situation.
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Agnes Adamus
January 13, 2020