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• Quake Champions is coming to Steam, but you'll have to buy it to get access

  Quake Champions is a free-to-play game, but when it comes to Steam next week, you’ll only be able to play if you’re willing to pay up.

• In order to reduce game sales outside of Steam, Valve will no longer automatically fulfil key requests from devs

  Valve is making an unprecedented move to curtail the number of Steam game sales happening outside of Steam itself.

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds passes 7 million copies sold, over 600,000 concurrent players

  PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has now sold over seven million copies on PC.

• Bungie's confirmation that Destiny 1 Silver showing up on Steam was an error only raises more questions

  Destiny 1 Silver becoming available on Steam of all places was in fact put there by Bungie.

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds patch schedule changes, monthly and weekly updates no longer guaranteed

  PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer Bluehole has announced a big change to the release cadence of patches.

• Batman: The Telltale Series Season 1 receives 22GB in updates in a week, and nobody knows why

  Right after the release of the second season of Batman: The Telltale Series, the first season received two big updates.

• You can buy Destiny 1 Silver on Steam, but we're not sure why [Update]

  Though we’re getting ever closer to the launch of Destiny 2, something weird is happening on Steam that concerns the first Destiny.

• LawBreakers player numbers on Steam at launch aren't so good

  The launch numbers for LawBreakers on PC are worrying.

• Some 1,000 games have been added to Steam since Direct's launch, 215 of which hit in the last 7 days

  The number of games released on Steam over the last seven weeks has skyrocketed, and it seems to be attributed to Steam Direct.

• The Dota 2 International 2017 main event has kicked off

  The 2017 International Dota 2 tournament has officially begun.

• In Crytek's Hunt: Showdown, "reckless players are dead players" - well yeah, there's monsters in that dismal swamp

  In Hunt: Showdown, “reckless players are dead players,” according to Crytek which makes sense considering you’re trudging through a humid, dank swamp filled with mosquitoes that laugh at your piddly insect repellent.

• Steam has seen 27 million new users flock to the service since January 2016

  Since January of last year, Steam has attracted 27 million new users.

• Conan Exiles hits Xbox One soon and is about to become 70% larger with The Frozen North expansion

  The upcoming free expansion to Conan Exiles will make the game world 70% bigger, and it will be released soon alongside the Xbox One version.

• Stardew Valley multiplayer details emerge, beta test coming to Steam at the end of 2017

  Chucklefish has provided some information on the multiplayer portion of Stardew Valley.

• Valve is changing Dota 2 to make the experience less frustrating for new players

  Dota 2 has received a new update designed to make the game more inviting for new players.

• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds overtakes Fallout 4, holds highest peak player count of any non-Valve game on Steam

  PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is officially the third game on Steam with the highest peak player count.

• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is free to download and play all weekend on Steam

  Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is free to play this weekend through Steam.

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds servers are down following connection issues [EDIT]

  The PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds patch released earlier this morning seems to have kicked up a storm of instability and other problems.

• Playing Gigantic? We have 10,000 Airship Supplies keys to giveaway!

  If you’re playing Gigantic on PC we have some nice skins for you.