![]() Federal Trade Commission is in the midst of applying for a preliminary injunction to stop Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard for, uh, $68.7 billion in cash, and a hearing is in progress. And if you want to sort things that way, you’ll get the following:įor anyone stuck in a mine (a Minecraft mine?) and not aware, the U.S. ![]() Another interesting one is by ‘highest Steam demo CCU during the festival’. The Steam tags for the top games are skewing to ‘core’ PC genres: of this Top 20, we see these subgenre ‘Top 5’ tags for 4 or more games - Colony Sim, Survival, Building, Roguelike, Action Roguelike, City Builder, Action RPG, Roguelite, Tower Defense. Other notables? First person sci-fi exploration adventure The Invincible, top-down co-op ARPG Wizard With A Gun, and starship management game Jumplight Odyssey. Some top games advanced ‘known’ game styles in smart ways: the Pinocchio themed Souls-like Lies Of P hit Next Fest on the tail end of a giant 15,000+ CCU spike for an earlier demo release, and still excelled. (The first two are ‘rare’ standouts in difficult genres to chart with, btw.) Many of these top games already had interest, and are piling on more: titles like ‘killer hook’ puzzler Viewfinder, 16-bit RPG Sea Of Stars and Rimworld-ish medieval kingdom sim Norland are adding to existing, substantial wishlist & followers. But we’re starting with ‘total Steam followers added during Next Fest’ (above). There’s a number of lenses on which of the (excellent!) demos performed the best, each of which shows somewhat different things. There were around 1,000 PC game demos showcased in it, about 6.25% of the 16,000 unreleased Steam games being monitored by GameDiscoverCo in our Steam Hype charts. With Steam’s latest Next Fest demo showcase just finishing up, it showed itself to be a mammoth affair. Steam’s June Next Fest - who came out on top? Would game platforms doing this for icons or videos be a) marketing nirvana b) evil over-instrumenting? Your call! And there’s actually a lot to talk about, what with Steam’s Next Fest just ending, and the FTC’s lawsuit blocking the Microsoft x Activision deal apparently never ending, sigh.īefore we get started - we spotted that YouTube is piloting a ‘thumbnail A/B test’ feature which checks ‘watch time’ & displays the winner. Well, time for us to return to newsletter sending-out mode.
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