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An image of the "Stonks" meme with the Steam logo overlayed onto it. The meme depicts a man in a suit with numbers trending upwards.
Nearly 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News You probably didn't play most of them.

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Nier: Automata 2B
Unlikely hit Nier: Automata has now sold over 9 million copies

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Absolute vindication of one studio's creative vision.

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A factory on a junk-covered planet in Factorio: Space Age.
Factorio's expansion is setting record high player counts yet again so I'm expecting the world's IT infrastructure to collapse and innovation to stagnate any day now

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News This has to be a statistically significant portion of the world's engineers, admins, and coders.

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Crusader Kings 3 Best Mods
Crusader Kings 3 players have pet their digital cats and dogs over 11 million times

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Paradox shares some 4th anniversary stats for the historical grand strategy.

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Astarion, a pale-haired, fancily dressed Vampire Spawn in Baldur's Gate 3, makes a quip while wearing a snazzy cowboy hat.
Baldur's Gate 3 anniversary statistics cement the popularity of Astarion, kissing, and being turned into a cheese wheel

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Why would you antagonize a wish-granting extraplanar entity?

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Helldivers 2
Helldivers 2 player counts more than double launch weekend, 300K and climbing, as the co-op shooter goes viral

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Sweet liberty, the success!

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Helldivers 2
Helldivers 2 is now PlayStation's biggest PC launch by a factor of two

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News The peak concurrent players Steam has doubled God of War.

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Next Generation de-yassified and sleazy looking Luis Sera looking at the camera with his mouth open
Resident Evil 4 remake sold well over 6M copies, comprehensive gold edition coming this week

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News The gold edition will include both the Separate Ways DLC and the deluxe Extra DLC.

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Steam's Best of 2023 highlights top sellers, most played—apparently Steam Deck players really like Half-Life

By Jonathan Bolding Published

News Seriously, Half-Life in the same tier as Baldur's Gate 3, Dave the Diver, and Vampire Survivors.

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Splash art for Fortnite OG
The return of Fortnite's original map brings a record-setting 6M concurrent players to the battle royale island

By Jonathan Bolding Published

news It's more players than Fortnite had at its peak as a cultural phenomenon.

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