It seems like everyone's jumping back into City 17 this week as Half-Life 2 smashes concurrent player records on Steam. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Half-Life 2 just got a massive update and a free weekend, prompting the peak concurrent player count to go over the 64K mark. SteamDB reports that …
Read More »Fallout 76 hits new player milestone
The peak concurrent player count on Steam for Fallout games just keeps increasing. Thanks to the success of Amazon's new Fallout TV series and ongoing sales across all Fallout games, some Fallout games are hitting new all-time peak concurrent player counts. Based on the data gathered by SteamDB, Fallout 4 …
Read More »Former Valve dev slams SteamDB and its impact on Early Access games
Chet Faliszek, former Valve veteran and writer for iconic games including Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and Portal, has expressed some heavy criticism of the Early Access model this week. Faliszek left Valve a few years ago to start up a new studio, which released its first game, The Anacrusis, …
Read More »Destiny 2 is sinking and Bungie only has itself to blame
In 2022, Destiny 2 had its best year ever, thanks to the excellent Witch Queen expansion and the seasonal content that followed. This ultimately led to all-time high concurrent player counts when the follow-up expansion, Lightfall, launched earlier this year. Unfortunately, the Lightfall expansion amounted to little more than filler …
Read More »Marvel’s Avengers free weekend boosts PC player base
Last week, Square Enix announced that the first major expansion for Marvel's Avengers, which will introduce Black Panther to the game, will be releasing in August. To celebrate, over the weekend, the game went free to play for a limited time and sure enough, it did seem to reinvigorate the …
Read More »PUBG falls below 1 million peak concurrent players for the first time in a year
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds dominated gaming all throughout 2017 and despite some stiff competition from Fortnite this year, the game has continued to do incredibly well on Steam. Every single day for 365 days straight, PUBG managed to maintain a peak concurrent player count of over 1 million. That streak unfortunately …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege hits all-time high player record as Year Three commences
Rainbow Six Siege is just entering its third year on the market and it looks like Ubisoft's consistent content updates are paying off well. This week, Rainbow Six Siege saw huge growth, setting a new concurrent player record for the game on PC. Previously, Rainbow Six Siege's peak concurrent player …
Read More »Overwatch surpasses 35 million players
During Overwatch's first year on the market, the game has hit a number of milestones. 15 million players had enjoyed the game during the Summer of last year and by May this year, that number had doubled to 30 million. Now, with the Halloween event getting under way, Overwatch has …
Read More »Destiny 2 surpasses 1.2 million concurrent players
After several months of hype building Bungie's Destiny 2 launched in the middle of last week. Things seem to have been going very well so far too, as over the weekend more than 1.2 million guardians were logged in to Destiny playing at once. With 1.2 million concurrent players, Destiny …
Read More »Ubisoft has revised its statement on The Division’s player count
Last weekend, we got news that The Division's player count may finally be back to launch numbers, following Ubisoft's move to delay DLC to fix up all complaints with the game to bring players back in. Things weren't quite adding up according to Steam Chart numbers but given that a …
Read More »The Division’s active player count ‘back to launch numbers’
Update: Ubisoft has revised its original statement, claiming that the original wording was a ‘miscommunication'. An updated statement has since been issued, which now claims that The Division's player numbers are “trending in a positive direction”, rather than claiming launch numbers are back. Full story, HERE. Original Story: While The …
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