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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has hit a new milestone of 3 million concurrent players on Steam, as PUBG Corporation looks to expand to platforms beyond PC and Xbox One.

The milestone was revealed in a tweet from PlayerUnknown himself, Brendan Greene. He posted Steam statistics to Twitter, thanking fans for their continued support following the game’s 1.0 release:

OVER 3 MILLION!! Thank you all for helping us reach this amazing milestone! GG WP everybody <3 pic.twitter.com/twUQkSkP5U

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The World Health Organization will list “Gaming disorder” and “Hazardous gaming” as health disorders in its International Compendium of Diseases.

Part of the WHO’s first major update to the Compendium since 1992, gaming disorder is listed as an addictive behaviour alongside gambling, while hazardous gaming is a pattern of gaming behaviour “that appreciably increases the risk of harmful physical or mental health”.

The results of both disorders as described have received mass media attention in the past, and this categorisation appears to be an attempt to allow for easier diagnosis and treatment.

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2018 is here, and so Valve is taking a look back at the year that was on Steam. Much as it did last January, it has revealed a list of the best-selling games on the platform, but it’s also provided information on some new categories. While it doesn’t provide any specific figures, it does give us a snapshot of what proved to be Steam’s most popular games in 2017.

This starts with the list of 2017’s top sellers, which is determined based on gross revenue earned during the calendar year. Valve provided a list of the top 100 games, which have been divided into Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum levels (though the exact distinction between these is not explained). Most of the games to reach Platinum were older titles and included the likes of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Grand Theft Auto V, Rainbow Six Siege, Rocket League, and Dota 2. There were some 2017 releases, too, including Divinity: Original Sin II and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the latter of which we know has proven to be phenomenally popular.

In terms of players, Valve provided a list of the games with the most concurrent users (meaning those that were online and playing at the same time). PUBG, of course, leads the list, having recently eclipsed the 3 million mark. Eight others also topped the 100,000 mark during the year, including Dota 2, Counter-Strike: GO, Rainbow Six Siege, and Grand Theft Auto V.

Valve also shared a breakdown of new titles, offering a look at the top-grossing newly released games of each month. The number of games shown varies from month to month, and again, there’s little insight into what allowed them to qualify. Some months have as many as 16, while June had just five, including Dirt 4, Tekken 7, and Cold Waters.

VR-only games got their own top sellers list (again based on revenue during the year and divided into four tiers). Job Simulator, Superhot VR, and Fallout 4 VR were among those to hit Platinum status. There’s also a look at the top-grossing games that left early access in 2017, and while the expected ones like PUBG and Original Sin II show up, the Platinum tier also includes The Long Dark, Slime Rancher, and Ark: Survival Evolved, among others.

You can check out all of Steam’s 2017 charts here.

Microsoft has pulled an advertisement for the Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds after a fan claimed the company copied their artwork. Reddit user Macsterr says a tweet from @Xbox used an image similar to their own ad concept posted to Reddit in November.

Microsoft has now deleted the tweet in question and says the matter is under investigation. Longtime Xbox spokesperson Major Nelson commented: “I wanted to let you know that this is being investigated. In the meantime, our official channels have pulled down the asset in question. I’ll follow up with the OP /u/macsterr/ once I get more details.” No further update has since been posted.

PUBG launched for Xbox One on December 12. The port remains in early access, though some fans have complained that the console version doesn’t perform as well as the game’s native PC edition. More recently, PUBG developer PUBG Corp. has said it hopes the battle royale game will eventually come to “every platform,” while the PC version has now passed 3 million concurrent users.

If you decide to jump into the game soon, be sure to check out our beginner’s guide for getting started in PUBG. Alternatively, now the shooter has officially launched on PC, check out our PUBG review.

New Netflix show Dark features sci-fi action-RPG The Surge being played in a split-screen mode – a mode that doesn’t (and likely never will) exist.

The German series includes a scene where two people are playing via split-screen co-op. A representative for developer Deck13 explained on Reddit the series’ producers contacted Deck13 months before production started about possibly including the mode on the show for story purposes.

The producers were looking to include a game in the scene and went with The Surge principally because both the game and Dark were developed in Germany. “We agreed and allowed them to even fake a splitscreen if it fitted better for their idea,” the representative said. “Some kind of creative rework one could say.”

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Platinum Games has two designs in mind for brand new IP, and wants to change its approach and self-publish this game.

Atsushi Inaba, head of development and producer at Platinum revealed the independent studio’s new focus in an interview with Game Informer.

“Up until now, obviously we’ve worked on original IPs for a wide variety of publishers,” Inaba said. “We’ve also worked on other Hollywood IPs for other publishers as well. But we’re becoming more and more interested in the idea of self-publishing and doing our own title.”

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Microsoft has pulled down a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds advert from its social media channels, after the creator of a fan concept complained about striking similarities to their work.

Reddit user Macsterr had created a concept advert for the Xbox One version of PUBG that garnered tens of thousands of views – then noticed that Microsoft’s social channels had posted an advert with near-identical ideas. You can see both in the gallery below:

Seeing no credit offered, Macsterr pointed out the similarities on Reddit, which caught the attention of Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb a day later.

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