Steam Deck lending a hand(held)

PC gaming platform Steam has smashed its present all-time file for Most Present Gamers, with a staggering 30 million gamers plus leaping on-line over the course of this previous weekend.

The numbers peaked on Sunday, October 23, with a tremendous 30,032,005 gamers on-line.

Whereas nobody recreation, specifically, will be tipped as chargeable for this participant platoon, mass multiplayer titles — similar to Digital Arts’ Apex Legends, PUBG Company’s PUBG: Battlegrounds, and Valve’s personal long-running Steam icons DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike: World Offensive (CS:GO) — stay the most well-liked and most performed titles on the PC-based platform. With regard to gross sales, the most well-liked Steam purchases in current weeks have been Activision’s Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 2, Sega’s Soccer Supervisor 2023, and Paradox Interactive’s technique sequel Victoria 3.

Gaming, or just simply hanging out, on Steam has seen constant ahead momentum since Valve launched the platform method again within the fall of 2003. This development has accelerated for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic and its aligned international lockdown laws. Extra lately, the launch of the highly effective handheld console, Steam Deck, has additionally seen extra gamers remaining logged in and on-line for longer durations of time — whether or not gaming, chatting, or simply idly ramping up their very own electrical energy invoice.

Steam hits new 30 million concurrent participant peak [Steam]