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Never before have so many people logged on at the same time

Never before have so many people logged on at the same time

After more than two years of the pandemic, most of us can’t see rising curves, but fortunately there are a few trends that are somewhat encouraging – at least for the video game world. Steam recently celebrated a new record: over 30 million simultaneously active users. Valve’s platform is thus reaching a new milestone that ...

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30 million people used Steam today, a new all-time record

30 million people used Steam today, a new all-time record

picture: SteamDB Valve’s Steam platform was launched back in 2003, and for much of that time, it saw slow and steady growth as it evolved from a place to buy Half-Life games to the standard PC gaming marketplace. What has happened in the last two years, however, was unbelievable. In 2015, Steam set a record ...

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The Sims 4 update makes babies real people, not objects

The Sims 4 update makes babies real people, not objects

screenshot: EA/Kotaku During today’s Sims Summit, EA gave a glimpse of an upcoming update that appears to give toddlers far more autonomy. During the event’s “One More Thing” moment, a few brief seconds were devoted to showing a crawling baby being quickly picked up by its mother. Family life just got a little hectic. While ...

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Megan Thee Stallion twerks with Master Chief at TwitchCon

Megan Thee Stallion twerks with Master Chief at TwitchCon

photo: Robin L Marshall (Getty Images) We’ve seen bad news coming from TwitchConnow let’s focus our attention on something instead different. As part of the musical celebrations at last night’s con, Megan Thee Stallion played a set. And for some reason, it showed Master Chief — complete with accreditation ribbon, because this is TwitchCon, not ...

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WhatsApp starts testing video calls for up to 32 people

WhatsApp starts testing video calls for up to 32 people

It had been several days since we had heard from WhatsApp. Remember that the betas of this application are always very varied over the weeks with new functions that are beginning to be tested on many devices. On this occasion, it was Mark Zuckerberg who announced the arrival of call links to join video calls ...