Is China’s Steam Going To Help Chinese Developers?

While a Chinese version of Steam exclusive to the country may sound neat and may help bolster the local games market, it may be a threat. This is partially due to the fact that this version of Steam is region-locked. It also doesn't help that China's government regulations as of now make it impossible for small developers to survive in the Chinese ...

Steam China Will Be A Separate Entity From The International Version Of Steam

It had to eventually come to this, given Chinese distributor Perfect World's long-standing relationship with Valve via Chinese Dota 2. The company recently announced more details about the Chinese version of Valve's digital distribution platform. Steam China will be called "Zhengqi Pingtai", which is translated to "Steam Platform". The p...

Steam Stats From 2018 Show That China & South Korea May Be Valve’s Focus

The latest Steam 2018 year in review stats from Valve is out and its numbers are growing bigger than ever. Here's the first part: There are 47 million daily active users on the platform. There are 90 million monthly active users. The platform peaked at 18.5 million concurrent users. There are at least 1.6 million new purchasers per month. W...