Halo 3 launch pushes Master Chief Collection Steam player figure up
By Alex Calvin, PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor
Halo 3 recently joined Halo: The Master Chief Collection, bringing back a lot of players on Steam.
The title boasted 54,416 concurrent players on Valve's platforming following its release, according to SteamCharts, an increase on the 10,819 peak simultaneous users seen in June. In May, the game saw a high of 45,253 following the release of Halo 2: Anniversary on Steam.
Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.