World War 3 breaks out at the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten

Despite launch day issues, the military shooter has hit the bullseye in its second week

Steam has gained 23 million monthly active users in under a year

Valve’s platform has also hit a peak concurrent user record of 18.5 million

• Steam
• player stats

More than one million people have played Nexon's MapleStory 2

MMO attracted this audience in just one week

• data
• MMO
• south korea
• one million
• maplestory 2

Call of Duty opening weekend revenue flat year-on-year

Black Ops IIII makes $500m in its first weekend; same as 2017's WWII

• call of duty
• call of duty: black ops IIII

Report: Steam's Chinese usebase is higher then 30m

That's roughly a fifth of total users

• China
• Steam

Report: Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII hasn't killed PUBG on Steam

But it's early days yet

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• call of duty
• pubg
• call of duty: black ops IIII

Star Citizen raised over $1m last week

Follows Alpha 3.3 release

• crowdfunding
• star citizen

Activision claims Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII is its biggest Day One digital sales event, offers no figures to support this

Game is released, sells copies digitally

• data
• call of duty
• call of duty: black ops IIII
• pr spin

Two million people have played Forza Horizon 4 in its first week

Franchise is the best-selling racing series of this console generation - no surprise as it's the only annual release in this space

• data
• racing
• forza horizon 4

New SuperData tool tracks video game value and impact of creators

“Watching games online has quickly become one of the most popular forms of interactive entertainment with many games video titles and esports events now generating audiences that rival traditional media content"

• data
• influencers
• video content

Assassin's Creed Odyssey peak Steam player count already 33 per cent higher than Origins'

Title hits 62,000 user peak

• player figures
• assassin's creed odyssey

Video games contributed $3.8bn to UK economy in 2016

And it provides 50,000 jobs

• UK
• economy

Report: Around 13m Playerunknown's Battlegrounds accounts have been banned

Not 13m players, though

• data
• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• cheating
• anti-cheat

Nvidia GeForce 1060 is still most popular graphics card on Steam

Hardware survey show that barely six per cent of users are playing at 1080p or higher

• Steam
• gpu
• resolution

This week’s Steam Top Seller is a Chinese indie game that can’t be played in English

The Scroll of Taiwu takes No.1 in this week’s Steam Top Ten.

• China
• steam charts