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

League of Legends is trending towards its worst-performing year since 2014

21 per cent year-on-year revenue drop hasn’t stopped the MOBA from taking third spot in SuperData’s August chart

• league of legends
• charts

78.3m people played Fortnite in August

Game's biggest month yet

• fortnite
• battle royale
• player figures

Rocket League has attracted 10m new players since start of 2018

Car football title hits 50m total player count - but we don't know how well it has sold

• player figures
• rocket league

Australian study reports loot boxes "psychologically akin to gambling"

"They may therefore condition gamers to require the excitement associated with gambling , leading to problem gambling"

• loot boxes

Survival title Scum hits 1m sales

Early buyers rewarded with golden handgun

• sales
• one million

Lara sneaks to Steam No.1 with Shadow of the Tomb Raider

But it looks like the game hasn't done so well in the physical charts

• data
• steam charts
• shadow of the tomb raider

Adult games site Nutaku hits 115.2m visits each month

Traffic more than doubled in last five months

Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion allegedly tripled the game’s player count

Returning players and a PS Plus promotion boost numbers for the Bungie shooter

• destiny 2
• player stats

Report: Over half of US "active gamers" play on PC

35 per cent of American population use this platform for games

• research
• usa

Gamescom media coverage drops almost 20 per cent for 2018

Lowest point since Ico Partners started tracking

• media
• gamescom 2018

SCUM lasts another week on the run as it steals No.1 in the Steam Top Ten

Gamepires' survival sandbox has managed more ups than downs in its first few weeks on Steam

• steam charts
• scum

Update: PUBG dips below 1m concurrent players for the first time in twelve months... days after reaching one-year streak

One hell of a record

• playerunknown's battlegrounds
• battle royale
• pubg
• player stats

EA flaunts FIFA advantage following lacklustre PES 2019 sales

260m sales from the football franchise to date

• fifa
• pes
• pro evolution soccer
• fifa 19
• football

SCUM caps off first week with 700,000 players and a server wipe

Developer reminds players that Early Access means more wipes are likely in future

• early access
• player figures
• scum