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Report: Malware Brings Original Modern Warfare 2 On Steam Offline
28.7.2023
After a recent spike in interest as old servers were brought back online on Xbox, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II was taken offline earlier this week on PC over reports of malicious hacks. According to Techcrunch, players were getting attacked in the 2009 game via “hacked lobbies.”Read more
Chaos Erupts As Team Fortress 2 Jacks Player Count Up To 100
27.7.2023
Team Fortress 2 has now been with us for over 15 years, and for some reason, developer Valve just decided to jack the maximum number of players who can join a server at once up to 100. Valve doesn’t actually recommend you play with that many people, and warns that the game doesn’t properly support...
Ubisoft Account Deletion Policy Sparks Backlash, Confusion
25.7.2023
A viral tweet about Assassin’s Creed creator Ubisoft’s account deletion policy has ignited an intense conversation about data collection and game access. Though the policy isn’t new, the wording has players confused about the consequences of inactive accounts.Read more
Summer special: how devs should reach out to top YouTubers
25.7.2023
Also: some exciting 'top Steam tag' numbercrunching, and lots of news
Plus: Xenonauts 2, Punch Club 2 head this week's Steam debuts
22.7.2023
Also: what's up next week, and a whole heap of other PC/console sales data!
Golden Cask Club: Brewing a new wave of crypto investment as Cardano & Dogecoin lose steam
21.7.2023
As Cardano (ADA) and Dogecoin (DOGE) experience a decline in popularity, a new wave of crypto investment is brewing with Golden Cask Club (GCC). This innovative cryptocurrency protocol aims to revolutionize the alternative investments market by offering NFT whiskey, wine, and champagne investments....
Counter-Strike League Makes It Clear: Crocs Are Banned
20.7.2023
The ESL, a large Counter-Strike: Global Offensive esports league, announced all the changes it made to its rule book ahead of the upcoming IEM Cologne 2023 competition in Germany. And among the changes is a very important one: Crocs are banned. Read more
Chainlink’s LINK Pops 15%, XRP Loses Steam as Bitcoin Revisits $29.6K Range Lows
20.7.2023
Tech stocks such as Tesla and Netflix, which crypto prices tend to correlate with, sold off during the day as investors shied away from risk assets
Overwatch 2 Players Are Playing And Spending Less Now, Blizzard Says
20.7.2023
Overwatch 2 is in a rough spot as Blizzard prepares for one of its biggest content drops yet next month. After a collection of bad news since its October 2022 launch, including the gutting of PvE content and charging $15 for story missions, Overwatch 2’s engagement and money investment...
Hry od Blizzardu se konečně vrací na Steam. Dojde i na World of Warcraft?
20.7.2023
Pokud máte rádi všechny své hry na jednom místě, máte důvod k oslavám. Některé hry od společnosti Activision Blizzard totiž už v budoucnosti půjde spustit i přes steamového klienta. První vlaštovkou nového přístupu bude 10. srpna střílečka Overwatch 2
Blizzard postupně přidá své hry z Battle.netu i na Steam. První je na řadě Overwatch 2, další budou následovat
20.7.2023
Fantastic New Horror Game Mixes Sesame Street With Resident Evil
19.7.2023
I love The Muppets and Sesame Street. With their loveable puppets and goofy characters, these shows are quintessential children’s TV. However, I also have this odd fear. What if the puppets in those shows were real? Like actually existed in our world? Would they all be immortal? Powerful?...
Overwatch 2 And Other Blizzard Games Are Coming To Steam
19.7.2023
If you, like many others, are very particular about which PC launcher you like to open to play your games and are partial to Steam, you’re in luck. Blizzard has announced it’s bringing some of its games to the platform, starting with Overwatch 2. So you won’t have to worry about keeping...
This Ocean-Diving RPG Never Stops Adding Brilliant New Ideas
19.7.2023
Dave The Diver is taking the world by storm. With a million copies sold in its first month, this indie title from Korean developers Mintrocket crosses diving and fishing with running a restaurant, and creates one of the best games we’ve seen in 2023. Here’s why.Read more
New Laws Might Require Gaming Handhelds Have Replaceable Batteries
17.7.2023
The European Union dropped new regulations demanding future consumer tech products, including gaming handhelds like successors to the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck, have user-replaceable batteries by 2027.Read more
Plus: how an Only Up! clone made millions on Fortnite
14.7.2023
Also: all of our normal Steam & console charts, of course
Microsoft: Pulling Call of Duty From Steam Was A 'Failure'
13.7.2023
In a new filing from Microsoft detailing the company’s post-trial “findings” and “conclusions” after its recent victory in court against the Federal Trade Commission the Xbox maker revealed that Call of Duty leaving Steam was part of an Activision plan to grow Battle.net. But according to the docs...
Team Fortress 2 Hits New Player Record After Big Update
13.7.2023
Team Fortress 2 got a big content update yesterday, July 12, and it’s got players flocking to the hero shooter in such numbers that a new concurrent player record has just been set for the game, 16 years after it first released.Read more
2023’s Best Horror Game Death Scenes
13.7.2023
We’re done with half of 2023 and many of its fantastic horror games, though there’s more on the way (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alan Wake 2, and the Silent Hill 2 remake are still due out). That means we’ve willingly subjected ourselves to lots of stone-cold death scenes—enough to compile in...
2022 Favorite Vampire Survivors Is Almost A New Game After This Upgrade
12.7.2023
Gothic indie darling Vampire Survivors will be—please accept this pun—completely revamped after it receives a round of updates on August 17. That day, the roguelike bullet hell will receive co-op mode and the Steam version will move over to a new engine.Read more