PC GAMING

PC GAMING Steam lists its top PC games at 2018’s midpoint MIKE MINOTTI@TOLKOTO JULY 5, 2018 9:35 AM Everybody walk the dinosaur. Above: Everybody walk the dinosaur. Image Credit: Frontier Developments MOST READ Orphia. Heroes of the Storm eulogy: For once, Blizzard couldn’t balance the casual and competive It is difficult to get the entire monitor into one shot. Samsung CHG90 review — Can a 32:9 49-inch monitor fit into your life? Hytale is a challenge to Minecraft. Beware, Minecraft and Roblox. Here comes the blocky world of Hytale UPCOMING EVENTS GamesBeat Summit: April 23 - 24 Valve’s digital PC store Steam revealed the games that have sold best on its platform so far in 2018. The list separates games into multiple tiers, with Platinum being at the top. We’ve asked Valve what the threshold is for a game to be considered Platinum on Steam. They appear in groups with no particular order. So we know which games were among the best sellers, but we don’t know which is leading the pack. Recommended videosPowered by AnyClip NOW PLAYINGA Star Is Born leads the SAG Awards film nominations Sony Pictures takes Spider-Man into a bold new world The Avengers trail their Endgame Nexstar to buy Tribune for $4.1 bln Kevin Hart quits 2019 Oscars host job after insensitive tweets resurface The Platinum games include: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Rocket League Civilization VI Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Jurassic World: Evolution Warhammer: Vermintide II Rainbow Six: Siege Grand Theft Auto V Warframe Playerunkown’s Battlegrounds Far Cry 5 The list includes many games you’d expect to see, like perennial Valve hits Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 along with triple-A titles like Far Cry 5 and Grand Theft Auto V. The list does include some surprises, including Jurassic World: Evolution, a licensed park simulator that just came out on June 12. Warframe also made it Platinum. The free-to-play cooperative shooter launched in 2013, but it has been able to thrive thanks to continued support and content updates. The inclusion of free-to-play games on the list indicates that “best seller” is based on revenue, not literal number of digital copies sold. Valve also listed the best selling VR games of the year so far. You can see that list here. Indie VR hits like Beat Saber and Super Hot VR were able to make the Platinum category along with games like Fallout 4 VR and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR. Valve also gave special recognition to games that have had over 100,000 concurrent players during 2018. These include: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Grand Theft Auto V Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Warframe Rainbow Six: Siege Dota 2 No surprises there.