Playnite is a free, open-source game library manager and launcher for Windows. It consolidates games from various platforms, such as Steam, Epic, GOG, Origin, Battle.net, and emulators into a single, unified interface.
CD burning was threatening Steam's entire business model
Burned: Valve's founding chief marketing officer, Monica Harrington, recently shared her account of how the company became the leading provider of digital PC games. Harrington pushed for stricter authentication measures after discovering how young players were more than willing to pirate their games.
PSA: With over 40 million users, Steam is likely an attractive target for hackers, but very few cases of malware have occurred on the storefront over its two-decade history. Although a recent incident isn't as severe as last month's, it suggests that scammers are stepping up their efforts to bypass Valve's security measures.
What just happened? There's a new top graphics card on the Steam survey. After seeing a comparatively huge 4% increase in users, the RTX 4060 has replaced the RTX 3060 as the most popular GPU among participants of Valve's survey. There was also an unexpected 5% jump in the number of people using Intel CPUs, which points to February being another one of those months where the results were anomalous.
Over 1.3 million concurrent players contributed to beating Dota 2's peak record
In brief: Monster Hunter, a franchise that once struggled to spread beyond its core Japanese audience on the PSP, is now Capcom's most successful IP. Latest release Monster Hunter Wilds has broken records on Steam and for the company as a whole within 24 hours of launch. Its peak player count almost quadruples the franchise's previous mainline entry.