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Valve has announced that its Steam digital entertainment platform now has over 30 million active users – accounts which have been online in the previous 30 days.
Peak simultaneous player numbers are also up to over three million, with over six million unique gamers accessing Steam each day.
“Steam is on track to record the biggest year in its six year history,” said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. “The year has marked major development advances to the platform with the introduction of support for Mac titles, the Steam Wallet and in-game item buying support, and more.”
Newell added: “we plan to continue to develop the platform to offer more marketing, sales, and design tools for developers and publishers of games and digital entertainment”
Steam has established itself as the PC gaming platform, with an active user base rivalling that of the PS3 and Xbox 360. PC gaming is dead. Try telling that to Valve.
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