Roblox hits $38bn market cap at end of first day on stock exchange

"To all those who helped us get one step closer to fulfilling our vision of the Metaverse – thank you"

• finance
• going public
• new york stock exchange

Back-end issue briefly took CS:GO's Steam page offline

Title's store page was down for about three hours

• Steam
• counter-strike: global offensive
• CSGO

Valheim has now sold 5.7m copies

“It is a bit crazy actually, a once-in-a-lifetime hit, I think"

• data
• early access
• survival game
• valheim

Almost 6,000 people banned from Final Fantasy 14 for real-money trading

And that's just in one week

• MMO
• bans
• real-world trading
• final fantasy 14

Discord revenue almost tripled during 2020

Platform boasts 140 million monthly active users

• Revenue
• data

CHARTS: Loop Hero debuts at No.2 on Steam

Valheim has been the best-selling game on the platform for five weeks in a row

• data
• steam top ten
• valheim
• loop hero

Outriders demo has been downloaded by over two million people

Free trial hit this milestone after a week

• demo
• outriders

Valheim has sold five million copies in its first month

"Five million units is a huge milestone for any game, and to achieve this in four weeks is remarkable"

• data
• early access
• survival game
• valheim

Sports Interactive has sold 33.3m football management games to date

This seems to be both the Football Manager and Championship Manager franchises

• data
• football manager

Apex Legends closes in on 200k concurrent Steam players

• battle royale
• concurrent users
• player figures
• apex legends

Report: Doom Eternal made $450m in nine months

The shooter had the best launch weekend for the series when it debuted 12 months ago

• Revenue
• doom eternal
• doom

CHARTS: Valheim has spent a month at Steam No.1 spot

The Viking survival title has shifted over four million copies to date

• Steam
• early access
• valheim

Valve: 48m people have used a controller to play Steam games

Firm says that roughly 10 per cent of sessions use a gamepad on a daily basis

• Steam
• data
• controllers
• gamepads

SuperData: Digital PC revenue up 31% in January

Cyberpunk 2077 disappears from the Top Ten on PC altogether after taking No.1 last month

• data
• digital revenue
• spending

Valheim hits three million downloads in just over two weeks

Title sold one million copies in three days

• early access
• sales data
• survival game
• valheim