Jan 2, 2018

These are the top 100 Steam games of 2017

Left 4 Dead 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)

Another year over, a new one just begun, which means, impossibly, even more games.> But what about last year? Which were the games that most people were buying and, more importantly, playing? As is now something of a tradition, Valve have let slip a big ol’ breakdown of the most successful titles released on Steam over the past twelve months.

Below is the full, hundred-strong roster, complete with links to our coverage if you want to find out more about any of the games, or simply to marvel at how much seemed to happen in the space of 52 short weeks.

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Dec 12, 2017

1.24 Japan Update Is out!

Europa Universalis IV - Paradox_bus

We're currently rolling out our 1.24 Japan Update including free additions to the Pacific region. Click the image below for a short overview and read todays Dev Diary to get a look at the patchnotes!

Click to read the latest Dev Diary by DDRJake

Useful links
Official Website
Europa Universalis IV Wiki
Europa Universalis IV Development Diary Archive

Dec 12, 2017

1.24 Japan Update Is out!

Europa Universalis IV - Paradox_bus

We're currently rolling out our 1.24 Japan Update including free additions to the Pacific region. Click the image below for a short overview and read todays Dev Diary to get a look at the patchnotes!

Click to read the latest Dev Diary by DDRJake

Useful links
Official Website
Europa Universalis IV Wiki
Europa Universalis IV Development Diary Archive

Dec 5, 2017

EU4 - Development Diary - 5th of December 2017

Europa Universalis IV - Paradox_bus

In today's Dev Diary we're talking performance, bugfixes and balance changes as well as looking at some interesting graphs.

Click to read the latest Dev Diary by DDRJake

Useful links
Official Website
Europa Universalis IV Wiki
Europa Universalis IV Development Diary Archive

Dec 5, 2017

EU4 - Development Diary - 5th of December 2017

Europa Universalis IV - Paradox_bus

In today's Dev Diary we're talking performance, bugfixes and balance changes as well as looking at some interesting graphs.

Click to read the latest Dev Diary by DDRJake

Useful links
Official Website
Europa Universalis IV Wiki
Europa Universalis IV Development Diary Archive

Nov 29, 2017

Hotfix 1.23.1 is now Available! [checksum 1dc0]

Europa Universalis IV - BjornB

1.23.1 patch notes

Blocked hordes from getting the sheikh ul islam events on new ruler as they would not do anything for hordes. + Fix - for the fix for sheikh ul islam popping without effects on all new rulers for hordes.
Added loc for 3 lines in spanish and french.
Monthly piety and karma now shown as percentages, tweaked previous values to not be insanely high
AI will no longer randomly cancel annexation or integration.
Unit arrival time's accessibility is now larger than 1 pixel (decreased max width for current unit location)
You must now have no provinces outside the British region at the start to be eligible for the 'Around the world in 80 years' achievement.
Fixed potential CTD in CTradeGoodsDataBase::ReadPrices if trade goods were modded.
Fixed potential CTD in CTradeCompanyRegionTrigger if Trade Company Regions were modded.
Fixed trigger switch effect not propagating selected event option (causing e.g. Ruler always getting name from first option).
Added missing text for the mission to establish a colonial country in Brazil.
Added missing loc for colonization of brazil mission in Spanish, German and French as well.
Mamluk government now don't get set to 20 legitimacy when they lose their monarch
Religions will no longer spawn more reformation centers than they are allowed to
Fixed age check of heirs/queens when not used by government form when loading nation designer templates
Fix for CTD related to one province naval trade routes
You can no longer promote advisors if you don't have Cradle of Civilization

Savegames should be unaffected and achievement runs won't become invalid from the update.

Please report any bugs in our official forum!

We will not collect bug reports from the Steamhub.

Nov 29, 2017

Hotfix 1.23.1 is now Available! [checksum 1dc0]

Europa Universalis IV - BjornB

1.23.1 patch notes

Blocked hordes from getting the sheikh ul islam events on new ruler as they would not do anything for hordes. + Fix - for the fix for sheikh ul islam popping without effects on all new rulers for hordes.
Added loc for 3 lines in spanish and french.
Monthly piety and karma now shown as percentages, tweaked previous values to not be insanely high
AI will no longer randomly cancel annexation or integration.
Unit arrival time's accessibility is now larger than 1 pixel (decreased max width for current unit location)
You must now have no provinces outside the British region at the start to be eligible for the 'Around the world in 80 years' achievement.
Fixed potential CTD in CTradeGoodsDataBase::ReadPrices if trade goods were modded.
Fixed potential CTD in CTradeCompanyRegionTrigger if Trade Company Regions were modded.
Fixed trigger switch effect not propagating selected event option (causing e.g. Ruler always getting name from first option).
Added missing text for the mission to establish a colonial country in Brazil.
Added missing loc for colonization of brazil mission in Spanish, German and French as well.
Mamluk government now don't get set to 20 legitimacy when they lose their monarch
Religions will no longer spawn more reformation centers than they are allowed to
Fixed age check of heirs/queens when not used by government form when loading nation designer templates
Fix for CTD related to one province naval trade routes
You can no longer promote advisors if you don't have Cradle of Civilization

Savegames should be unaffected and achievement runs won't become invalid from the update.

Please report any bugs in our official forum!

We will not collect bug reports from the Steamhub.