I hope you’re all hungry, because I’ve got a serving of chicken dinner and Hadoukens for you! Would you like some dessert as well? I’D LIKE SOME POUND CAKE!

Sunday may have been the busiest day ever for the digital gaming platform, as the SteamDB reported that a peak of 18,801,944 players occurred at 6:20am PST on the holiest of days.

That act of camping may be technically legal in PUBG, but it makes for a boring game overall. The PUBG team is looking to nip that problem in the bud, as they’ve begun testing a new mode called Bluehole mode, which adds a new layer of danger to the game and encourages campers to actually stay on the go or risk death.

The paid-for lootbox is falling out of favour with consumers, and a s a result, it’s being used less and less by publishers who have to come up with new ways to nickel-and-dime their customers. The latest game to ditch paid lootboxes is one of the progenitors of the still popular Battle Royale genre; PlayerUnknown’s BattleGrounds.

For a while now, Fortnite has had cross-platform play. It means that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players can play the game together. Now, the same sort of cross-play is coming to the console versions of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.

So how does a company like PUBG Corp. stay on top of the cheating scene and weed out the guilty? With a little bit of trickery of their own.

Apex Legends isn't just another Battle Royale shooter - it's a smart redefinition of what the genre's rules are, while a refinement of the many problems its countless entries have struggled to grapple with for months.

The Steam Awards are a now annual user-voted set of accolades that the distribution platform has pushed since 2016. They’re a little different to most game awards, not just because they’re entirely voted by users, but also because their categories skew to the silly.