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Steam's second most-played game right now is reportedly a bot-filled marketplace that can get you banned

If you check in with Steam's player population data as much as I do, then you'll know it's pretty common to see an idle game towards the top. Bongo Cat has been sitting up there for basically a year. Banana holds the title of tenth-highest all-time concurrent player peak on Steam.Out with the old, and in with the new,...

2 months ago 👁 37
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PUBG extraction shooter, Black Budget, gets a date for its second playtest

PUBG Black Budget, the military shooter's answer to Escape from Tarkov, finally has a date for its second alpha playtest, and it's soon. Finding a niche somewhere in between the hard-as-nails EFT and the slightly more sci-fi Arc Raiders, Black Budget is a story-driven extraction FPS that drops you and your squad into t...

2 months ago 👁 37
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Task Bar Hero Will Collect More Player Data Following Cheating Controversy

Task Bar Hero has exploded on Steam. At the time of writing, the idle RPG sits just shy of 500,000 concurrent players, making it the second most-played game on the platform, ahead of Dota 2 and PUBG.

2 months ago 👁 43
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Data digest: Türkiye, US, Asia and MENA market stats, Pokémon Go, UA funding and more

  Every Wednesday we break down the latest data, research and financial results into digestible chunks. Read on for the numbers you need to know about without the fluff. This column is sponsored by Xsolla, which can help you to create a seamless online store where web purchases can quickly generate new revenue – f...

2 months ago 👁 58
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Steam $20 Survival Game Is Going Free-to-Keep for Good

A survival game called Prologue: Go Wayback, which launched in Early Access on Steam in November 2025, will soon drop its $20 price tag and become free-to-play for all users on Steam. Prologue: Go Wayback is developed by indie studio PlayerUnknown Productions, founded by Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG.

2 months ago 👁 36
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Nvidia's working with all the anti-cheat vendors to make competive games work on RTX Spark and WoA… just when gaming on Linux was looking good

One of the issues that gaming on Linux has right now, and one of the main reasons why Windows is still the dominant platform for gaming, is because there are still games that resolutely will not work on SteamOS or any other Linux-based distro. And one of the main reasons for that is a lack of support for some of the bi...

2 months ago 👁 96
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Not just for AI agents: Nvidia's RTX Spark means Arm-powered laptops for gamers, too, promising 100 fps at 1440p in the latest games

After a lot of leaks, a whole lot of rumours, and me boring the crap out of Nvidia's PRs about it many times over the years, the N1X CPU, now incorporated in the RTX Spark SoC, has finally been unveiled. It's been one of the most well-known secrets in the industry—that Nvidia would one day release a laptop SoC, pairing...

2 months ago 👁 50
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The new Fortnite season is a callback to 2019 bringing us Marvel and pirates.

Fortnite was released in July of 2017 by Epic Games with it taking the gaming world by storm with its unique building mechanics, a less violent and more animated look, and simpler game mechanics compared to the other big battle royale of the time, PUBG. It has since had over 650 million downloads and has made more than...

4 months ago 👁 57