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Written in Italian by the Statcade editorial team from data and official announcements, then translated into English. Sources are listed at the end of each article.
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The best-selling video games of all time: the top 10
Tetris stays on top with about 520 million copies sold.
The 10 most played games on Steam today (November 8, 2026)
Counter-Strike 2 tops the ranking with 536,539 concurrent players on Steam.
The most played horror games on Steam
On the eve of Halloween, Friday October 30 at 6:16 a.m. Italian time, the 23 horror games in Statcade's catalog had a combined 164,584 players online at the same time on Steam. Dead by Daylight led with 39,898: on its own, almost a quarter of the total.
Steam, October 17: three games hold a quarter of all players, Valve alone 22.3%
At 5:22 UTC on October 17, 2026, a Saturday, Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2 and PUBG: Battlegrounds together had 1,376,195 players online: 25.5% of the total recorded across the 310 Steam games with a figure, in data/games.json.
Free games are 13.2% of titles and 49.5% of players: Italian prices on Steam on October 17
In the October 17, 2026 reading, 41 free games gather 2,672,487 people, 49.5% of the players online across the 310 titles with a figure. The 269 paid games gather 2,730,971, 50.5%.
Genres on Steam overlap: “Action” covers 80.5% of players on October 17
On October 17, 2026 the “Action” label was on 211 of the 310 games with a player figure, and on 4,351,187 of the 5,403,458 players online: 80.5%. A Counter-Strike 2 player, in this count, also falls into Shooter and Free-to-Play.
58 million copies and 1,284 players online: public sales and Steam players are two different rankings
Human Fall Flat, on the public list of best-selling games across all platforms, stands at 58 million copies. On October 17, 2026, at 5:22 UTC, there were 1,284 people on its Steam page. Counter-Strike 2, in the same minute, had 568,345, and has no copies figure in the catalog.
Through December 10 the calendar has 19 dates: Modern Warfare 4 and Phantom Blade Zero show two
In Statcade's release file, updated on October 14, 2026, there are 19 games with an exact day between October 21 and December 10. For Modern Warfare 4 and Phantom Blade Zero, the publisher's day and the day recorded by Steam are not the same.
Publishers' results, in euros only for scale: Tencent at an indicative 32.1 billion, CD Projekt at 54.3%
Converted at the European Central Bank reference rates of October 16, 2026, revenue for the last full financial year puts Tencent's games at about €32.1 billion, Sony's PlayStation segment at about 26.4 and Microsoft's Xbox line at about 19.4. There are seventeen companies: the financial years differ, and so does the scope of each row.
Assassin's Creed Destiny: images and video surface of a cancelled game set in ancient China. According to MP1st it was a console and PC entry
A full entry for console and PC, set in ancient China and handled by Tencent's TiMi Studio Group in collaboration with Ubisoft: according to MP1st, which published images and video of it, the project existed and was cancelled in the early stages of development. Neither Ubisoft nor Tencent has confirmed it.
GTA VI launch trailer is out: Jason and Lucia in trouble in Leonida to a track by Justice
Rockstar released the launch trailer on October 15, just over a month before the November 19 release: 90 seconds captured entirely in-game on PS5, with a new track by Justice, who wrote the original score.
GTA VI takes over Miami: blimps, beach umbrellas and the Vice City logo on the arena, but the county is split
A month before release, Rockstar's campaign has turned the city that inspired Vice City into a giant billboard, and some local officials are not happy about it.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2, new trailers: Dark Link appears and you can play the ocarina for real
Nintendo showed the remake of the 1998 classic, coming on November 5, in an overview trailer and two Japanese commercials: one features Dark Link, never shown before in this version.
Control Resonant passes one million copies: the fastest-selling game in Remedy's history
About three weeks after its digital release, the new Control game reached a milestone that took Alan Wake 2 two months.
Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition pulled after criticism: the original game returns
Sega and Creative Assembly have admitted that the new version of the strategy classic falls short and are removing it from stores, putting the 2011 edition back on sale.
CD Projekt starts work on Project Hadar: the new world from the makers of The Witcher takes shape
After several years of design work, the Polish studio has completed the “world vision” for its first new intellectual property since Cyberpunk.