Steam New User Record of 27.9 million, Twitch Co-founder Launches NFT Marketplace, 2022 Upcoming Games
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Steam sets yet another all-new concurrent user record of 27.9 million
Steam’s kicked off with a bang in 2022, once again breaking its own concurrent user record, this time topping a staggering 27.9 million simultaneous users earlier today.
As spotted by SteamDB, it marks the digital platform’s highest ever concurrent peak – 27,942,036 to be precise – 8.2 million of which were actively in-game at the time.
Source: https://www.gamesradar.com/steam-sets-yet-another-all-new-concurrent-user-record-of-279-million/
Twitch Co-founder Launches Gaming NFT Marketplace
The amount of money pushing for the implementation of blockchain technologies into video games seems unstoppable, at the moment. The latest evidence comes from Twitch co-founder Justin Kan. The entrepreneur is massively supportive of cryptocurrency, NFTs, and other blockchain technologies, particularly in video games. That’s why Kan is launching Fractal, an NFT marketplace designed both for blockchain-based video games to sell NFTs directly to buyers and for NFT-owners to resell their purchases. It hasn’t been a smooth start, however.
Fractal is currently partnered with nine games to sell NFTs. These aren’t mainstream gaming partners, of course. They’re all effective platforms for the creation and sale of NFTs, with the games behind them being secondary. Regardless, titles including Mini Royale, Nyan Heroes, Caveworld, and others are working with Fractal to sell their NFTs. It’s as simple as connecting a crypto wallet to Fractal, clicking on a game listed in Fractal’s list of partners, perusing the NFTs available for sale, and purchasing the NFT using the Solana cryptocurrency.
Source: https://gamerant.com/twitch-co-founder-nft-marketplace-fractal/
2022 Upcoming Games
Q1 2022 (January, February, March)
- Rainbow Six Extraction – January 20
- Pokémon Legends Arceus – January 28
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human – February 4
- Total War: WARHAMMER 3 – February 17
- Horizon Forbidden West – February 18
- Elden Ring – February 25
- Gran Turismo 7 – March 4
- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin – March 18
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – March 25
Q2 2022 (April, May, June)
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl – April 28
- Forspoken – Spring
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga – Spring
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Spring
- Ghostwire: Tokyo – Spring
Q3 2022 (July, August, September)
- Saints Row – August 23
- Redfall – Summer
Q4 2022 (October, November, December)
- Starfield – November 11
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum – Fall
TBD 2022