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Skyrim leads a pack of past top sellers on this week’s Steam sales chart, with the majority carrying significant discounts thanks to Valve’s Autumn Sale. Skyrim’s Legendary Edition took first, while the standard version grabbed the fourth spot. Bioshock Infinite finished in the runner-up spot ahead of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: November 17-23
Last week’s PC launch of Assassin’s Creed IV helped Ubisoft’s title beat out Call of Duty: Ghosts for top of Steam’s top sellers chart. Digital pre-orders had Black Flag frequenting the list leading up to the Windows release, but this marks the first time its reached number one. Last week’s …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: November 10-16
Valve has revealed Steam’s top selling titles from the past week, with Egosoft’s X Rebirth launching its way to the top spot. The space sim beat out XCOM: Enemy Within (second) and last week’s winner Call of Duty: Ghosts (third) to grab the best seat at the table. Assassin’s Creed …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: November 3-9
Call of Duty: Ghosts is unsurprisingly at the top of Valve’s latest Steam weekly top sellers chart, beating out last week’s winner Football Manager 2014. The sports simulator still nabbed the runner-up spot, beating out State of Decay, Total War: Rome II, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag –with the …
Read More »Ubisoft details Assassin’s Creed 4 PC features
Ubisoft has revealed more details on the PC version of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, which releases later this month. As with Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Ubisoft has worked with Nvidia to ensure that Black Flag is optimised for the current generation Geforce GTX graphics cards. PC gamers with Geforce GTX …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: October 27 – November 2
Football Manager 2014 has come out on top of the past week’s top ten sellers on Steam. The sports sim finished ahead of pre-orders for the latest Call of Duty entry, as well as Batman: Arkham Origins – the previous week’s winner. Early access title Space Engineers finished in fourth, …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: October 20-26
Warner Bros. latest Dark Knight effort Batman: Arkham Origins finished ahead of indie gem The Stanley Parable to grab the top spot on this week’s Steam top ten sellers list. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 finished behind the pair in third, while Football Manager 2014 grabbed the fourth spot. …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: October 13-19
First-person exploration game The Stanley Parable has taken Steam’s weekly charts by storm, grabbing the number one spot in just two and a half days of availability. The indie game launched Thursday – late in the weekly sales period that measures Valve’s top ten list – and quickly climbed to …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: October 6-12
Civilization V is out in front of yet another Steam weekly software sales chart filled with aging hits on special. Civ V’s Gold Edition finished first, while its Brave New World expansion grabbed the sixth spot. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise also filled multiple chart positions, with a discounted Assassin’s Creed …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: September 29 – October 5
Steam’s latest weekly top ten selling products list has been littered with (mostly 2K published) games boosted by discount promotions. Sales on 2K Games this past weekend propelled several of the company’s titles onto the charts, including Bioshock Infinite (first), Borderlands 2 (runner-up), along with XCOM: Enemy Unknown (fourth) and …
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