Two million accounts have crafted weapons in F2P shooter Loadout

Loadout developer Edge of Reality announced yesterday that the build-what-you-want, shoot-everyone-in-sight game had more than 2 million accounts get locked ‘n’ loaded – that’s “created” in layman’s terms – in the short span of two weeks. Note that this is 2 million accounts, not necessarily 2 million players. Nonetheless, it’s...

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Twitch Plays Pokemon final stats: 1.1 million players, 36 million views

Twitch has announced the final statistics for cultural phenomenon Twitch Plays Pokemon, which came to a dramatic close earlier today. And while only one pokemon trainer can be the very best, more than 1.1 million people tried. The actual number of TPP “players” – as in, those who entered commands...

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Steam Family Sharing exits beta, now available to all

Following January’s official release of Steam Family Options, Valve Software has removed Steam Family Sharing from its long beta test and made it available to all Steam users. As its name suggests, Steam Family Sharing allows those with blood ties (or those willing to lie about blood ties) to freely...

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