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Cities: Skylines has once again topped Steam’s weekly best selling chart, beating out Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Grand Theft Auto V pre-orders. Chart newcomer Reign of Kings finished in fourth, while Ori and the Blind Forest held fast in the sixth position for the second week in a row. Similar …
Read More »Cities: Skylines surpasses 500,000 sales
Cities: Skylines has run past 500,000 sales in less than a week. The game became Paradox Interactive’s fastest-selling title thanks to it moving 250,000 copies on launch day. The company revealed yesterday that number has now doubled: "Looks like we broke the 500k barrier, HUGE thanks to every single Chirpy …
Read More »Steam tops 9m concurrent users
Steam has once again bested its concurrent user record, surpassing 9m active accounts for a stretch during the past weekend. VG247 reports Valve’s digital platform peaked at 9.06m concurrent users around midday Sunday, Pacific Daylight Time. The figure dethrones the previous best of 8.51m users logged at the beginning of …
Read More »Paradox will battle Cities: Skylines piracy with regular free updates
PC games publisher Paradox has said that it has a simple strategy to combat those who wish to pirate its PC mega-hit. Rather than employing some sort of draconian DRM the company instead has vowed to support the title with frequent free updates that will ensure that those playing a …
Read More »Cities: Skylines shifts 250k copies in one day
New city-building title Cities: Skylines has got off to a towering start on Steam. The game, published by Paradox Interactive and developed by Colossal Order, sold 250,000 copies (including pre-orders) across PC, Mac and Linux in its first 24 on sale after its release on Tuesday. The title is seen …
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