Tom from GamersFTW writes: "There are quite a few possible global events that could potentially warrant the humorous yet slightly alarming tag of ‘breaking the internet’. Announcements from the video game world that could achieve this dubious honour seem less plentiful. One, however, stands out: if a Half-Life sequel was officially revealed by Valve. Dream on, right? But is Valve’s haughtiness in continuously torpedoing rumours fair? I would argue that they are being little more than churlish. Allow me to explain."
On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.
It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.
@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.
Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.
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I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5
I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?
Im not sure how its confusing :\
72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.
A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.
But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.
for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.
Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI
72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.
According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.
Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.
This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).
This article explains how to link your Steam and PlayStation Networks accounts, which is becoming a must for Helldivers 2.
It'll be announced soon, to think otherwise is silly
It's one of the unspoken rules of the industry that Valve don't make 3rd entries to any of their series. It started off as superstition after no Half Life 3, but as time goes by it seems more likely to be true.
This video pretty much sums up how I feel about people still complaining about half life.
Just announce it so i can die in peace without having to haunt as a ghost for Gaben
It would be awesome if they did make it. However, this long without any glimmer of hope for another sequel, I think it's fair to say they are not going to do it. They just seem so disinterested in it. I stopped holding my breath for this a while ago...