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SteamSpy is dead… long live SteamSpy
Read More »SteamSpy looks to carry on with new algorithm
Valve’s appeal against $3m fine has been denied by High Court of Australia
Valve fall foul of Aussie Rules
Read More »Publishing reinvented: How Sega Europe had its best year yet
Sega is working closer than ever with its studios. We talk to MCV’s Person of the Year John Clark about community, acquisitions, incubation, leadership and the potential of Steam in China
Read More »The SteamSpy shutdown shows just how reliant the PC market is on a single, uncommunicative, platform
Steam is a brilliant platform but would it hurt for it to speak up occasionally?
Read More »Steam privacy update spells disaster for Steam Spy
Analytics service "relied" on games data not being hidden by default
Read More »Steam made $4.3b in game sales in 2017, 50% from top 100 games
SteamSpy estimates say 0.5% of Steam's 21,000 games generated 50% of its game sales revenue
Read More »MCV investigates the growing issue of discoverability on digital storefronts
How important are digital storefronts like Steam, the PSN Store and Nintendo eShop when it comes to discovering new games, and how can they keep up with an exponentially increasing software library? MCV investigates
Read More »Developer blog post looks at the correlation between short term and long term game sales on Steam
Regency Solitaire developer Jake Birkett gathers data to try and predict year-one sales figures
Read More »Steam hits 18.5m concurrent users
More people logged in than the population of Chile
Read More »PUBG, GTA V and Divinity: Original Sin 2 all in Steam’s top-grossing titles of 2017, Total War: Warhammer leads the rest of UK pack
What were the twelve highest-grossing games on Steam in 2017? Steam has now revealed those titles, though as with last year’s list the ‘Best of 2017 Top Sellers’ aren’t provided in any specific order or with any actual data. Instead the top grossing games are categorised into four medal categories. …
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