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Updated: Metro Exodus to be pulled from Steam as game becomes an Epic Store exclusive News Jan 28th, 2019

Updated: Metro Exodus to be pulled from Steam as game becomes an Epic Store exclusive

Pre-orders for the game on Steam live at time of writing and have been since August 2018; pre-orders here to be honoured

Resident Evil 2 is the series’ biggest launch on Steam so far News Jan 25th, 2019

Resident Evil 2 is the series’ biggest launch on Steam so far

Capcom’s second-biggest launch can’t hold a candle to Moster Hunter: World, however

Developers don't think Valve's 30 per cent rev share is justified, but Steam is still the most popular PC storefront News Jan 25th, 2019

Developers don't think Valve's 30 per cent rev share is justified, but Steam is still the most popular PC storefront

Meanwhile 47 per cent of respondents think unionisation is a good idea

Galyonkin: Epic storefront could target younger audience than Steam News Jan 15th, 2019

Galyonkin: Epic storefront could target younger audience than Steam

And only 40 per cent of that figure use it

Valve boasts 47m daily active users for Steam for 2018 News Jan 14th, 2019

Valve boasts 47m daily active users for Steam for 2018

90m people visited the platform every single month last year

There are now over 27,000 games on Steam News Jan 14th, 2019

There are now over 27,000 games on Steam

60 per cent of total number of titles on Valve's platform launched in 2017 and 2018

Ubisoft is the first major publisher to join Epic's store with The Division 2, French firm foregoes Steam News Jan 9th, 2019

Ubisoft is the first major publisher to join Epic's store with The Division 2, French firm foregoes Steam

And it looks like the title will not be coming to Steam

Steam believed Wandersong was too good to be true for five months News Jan 9th, 2019

Steam believed Wandersong was too good to be true for five months

“In the long run it didn’t impact THAT much, so I’ll choose to keep laughing about it”

Valve's anti-cheat system booted 600k players in December, mostly from CS:GO News Jan 8th, 2019

Valve's anti-cheat system booted 600k players in December, mostly from CS:GO

Follows online shooter's move from premium to free-to-play

Service-based games dominate the Steam top-selling and most-played charts of 2018 News Jan 3rd, 2019

Service-based games dominate the Steam top-selling and most-played charts of 2018

Valve has revealed the top-selling, most-played and most successful games of the last twelve months

Insurgency: Sandstorm holds the line amid the firefight at the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten News Dec 17th, 2018

Insurgency: Sandstorm holds the line amid the firefight at the top of this week’s Steam Top Ten

Focus Home Interactive take two spots this week with a contrast of combat and calm corn-farming

Valve explains why some indies have seen reduced Steam traffic News Dec 5th, 2018

Valve explains why some indies have seen reduced Steam traffic

Tweaks to search went wrong

Fortnite firm Epic launches games storefront where developers keep 88 per cent of revenue News Dec 4th, 2018

Fortnite firm Epic launches games storefront where developers keep 88 per cent of revenue

Launching soon with curated selection of games

Does Valve care about indies on Steam anymore? Feature Dec 4th, 2018

Does Valve care about indies on Steam anymore?

The PC giant is taking a smaller percentage of sales on more successful games while traffic to smaller projects falls

Valve makes changes to distribution agreement, lowers rev share for successful games News Dec 3rd, 2018

Valve makes changes to distribution agreement, lowers rev share for successful games

Projects that make over $10m see Steam payout drop a fifth to 25 per cent.

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