Steam has 50 million users, up to 5 million playing concurrently
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That news comes to you courtesy of the Valve “don't have plans to change” after European Court of Justice ruling; offers perspective on UK Steam game withdrawals
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In the last week the European Court of Justice ruled on a case that could have massive implications for digital game sales in Europe. In the case, the court ruled that a publisher “could not oppose the resale of used licenses" in effect paving the way for a market in used downloaded games.
When PCGamesN asked about Valve’s response to the ruling at the Develop Conference in Brighton, Valve’s Director of Business Development Jason Holtman offered a concise response: “we don’t have any plans to change". When pressed, he repeated the phrase: “we don’t have any plans to change."
Challenging the law of averages: what's Metacritic really for?
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What is Metacritic for? Is it the go-to method of taking a game’s temperature? Is it a rough and dirty register of the mass market? Or is it the great evil of the game industry, as some have claimed, crushing the natural diversity of opinions into a homogenised mush and, worse, needlessly nixing bonuses for developers who don’t manage to attain the arbitrary targets it sets?
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Ubisoft's chaotic racer, The Crew, is best enjoyed with cheering developers and bad teammates
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The Weekly Playlist: the one where Steve is part Mongol and Matt plays Portal 2 with a scientist
