We just learned that the launch of Microsoft Flight Simulator in Xbox Game Pass on PCs has attracted a record number of users.
video games
September 3, 2020
Fall Guys continues to conquer digital distribution platforms. According to Devolver Digital, the game is already the most downloaded title in the history of PS Plus service. It is also doing great on Steam.
video games
August 26, 2020
Ghost of Tsushima has become the best digital debut of a new IP in the history of Sony. The game sells much faster than Horizon: Zero Dawn and Days Gone.
video games
August 25, 2020
The TennoCon 2020 event, which took place in Warframe earlier this month, attracted enough interest from players to break the game's activity record on Steam. A new best result in the number of people watching the game on Twitch was also established.
video games
August 11, 2020
The developers of Roblox boasted that the number of monthly users exceeded 150 million. Record-high increases also occur in the case of money paid to players for creating new content.
video games
July 29, 2020
Originally packaged copy of Super Mario Bros. was auctioned off for $114 thousand. This beats the record from a year ago, when the same title reached a price just over $100 thousand.
video games
July 12, 2020
According to user ohnePixel, a Chinese collector paid 100 thousand dollars for StatTrak M4A4 (Howl) skin for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. This is the most expensive item of its kind in history.
video games
July 7, 2020
Yesterday, Fortnite hosted an event heralding the upcoming new season of the game, during which a standard storm on the map turned into huge waves of water. The event was watched on streaming services by a record number of spectators.
video games
June 16, 2020
The Future of Gaming presentation took place on Thursday. During the presentation the appearance of the PS5 console was revealed. As it turns out, the event met with great interest from the community, and the broadcast from the show itself was the most watched gaming stream in YouTub's history.
hardware & software
June 13, 2020
Battlestate Games boasted of a new activite record in Escape from Tarkov - over 200 thousand people played the game simultaneously.
video games
June 1, 2020
Researchers from Australia have managed to reach a connection speed of over 44 Tb/s. Most importantly, not under strict laboratory conditions.
hardware & software
May 26, 2020
A player decided to break the prison time record in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. With the maximum value of stolen gold, his hero was locked up for 225001 days, or 616 years.
video games
May 22, 2020
Ubisoft boasted record viewing numbers of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla. No game of the aforementioned publisher has ever aroused so much interest so far.
video games
May 15, 2020
Activision assured that despite the coronavirus, the next main installment of the Call of Duty series will appear this year. In addition, the company bragged that CoD: Modern Warfare is the fastest selling part of the series.
video games
May 6, 2020
In April, 950,000 more Steam users used VR goggles than a month before. VR is breaking popularity records on Valve's platform, which is probably related to the recent release of Half-Life: Alyx.
video games
May 4, 2020
Last night a new record in the number of logged in players was set in Fortnite. According to Epic, 12.3 million people watched the virtual concert of American rapper Travis Scott organized in the game.
video games
April 24, 2020
The SuperData analytics group published a report on global digital distribution in March. Last month turned out to be exceptionally good for the market, with great results of Doom Eternal, Half-Life: Alyx and Animal Crossing. The latter production broke the first month's digital sales record for console titles, set by Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII.
video games
April 23, 2020
Yesterday Counter-Strike: Global Offensive broke another activity record on Steam. Interestingly, at the same time, the game broke the historic result established by Dota 2 in 2016.
video games
April 19, 2020
Yesterday, Twitch broke a historical record. The launch of Valorant's closed beta tests attracted more than 1.7 million viewers. This was enough for the total number of people watching streams on the platform to exceed 4 million.
video games
April 8, 2020
We spend more time at home and apparently play more. This is shown by Steam stats, which continue to show an upward trend so that more records of the number of logged-in users are beaten. More than 22 million users were simultaneously using the application yesterday.
hardware & software
March 22, 2020