It took 18 days for a game about off-road trucking to sell 100K copies

Sales of Spintires, the off-road truck simulator from U.K.-based Oovee Game Studios, reached the milestone of 100,000 copies within the game's first 18 days on the market, the company announced today.

That figure includes digital sales — downloadable copies of Spintires are sold on Steam, Desura, the Humble Store, Green Man Gaming and more — as well as boxed retail copies, which are available in Europe from publisher IMGN.pro. Spintires was released June 12 digitally and June 13 at retail on Windows PC, and Oovee and IMGN.pro sold 100,000 copies by June 30.

"The success of Spintires has been prolific! I am very proud that my company and my team have fulfilled the wishes of many — by producing a game for the off-roading genre. Clearly this muddy adventure was a good choice and we will endeavor to improve the platform with free updates and DLC," said Zane Saxton, Oovee's managing director, in a press release today.

According to a developer Q-and-A posted on Reddit last week, Oovee's list of planned updates to Spintires includes the addition of environments and vehicles, as well as different weather conditions. For more, check out our Overview video below.


Source: Polygon

Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead update transitions multiplayer from GameSpy matchmaking to Steam

Following the recent termination of GameSpy's hosting services, the latest update rolling out for Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead focuses on the transition of its multiplayer from GameSpy matchmaking to Steam, Bohemia Interactive announced today.

"As you may have heard, GameSpy is discontinuing its services and it was therefore of paramount importance to offer an alternative for the passionate Operation Arrowhead players who have supported our game and our company for so many years," Bohemia's announcement reads.

GameSpy, a service that provided multiplayer functionality like leaderboards and matchmaking for more than 1,000 games, was established in 1997 and acquired by free-to-play mobile game publisher Glu Mobile in August 2012. GameSpy Technology announced in April that it would shutdown hosting services as of May 31.

Those who have previously purchased a retail copy of Arma 2, including its DLC and Operation Arrowhead expansion, can now activate their CD key on Steam as product key. Bohemia implemented a system to help host and connect to servers for those who wish to play games affected by the GameSpy shutdown, but are not updated to work with Steam, including Arma 1, Arma Cold War Assault and Take On Helicopters.

Update 1.63, which is only available through Steam, also introduces numerous fixes and optimizations. The full change is available on the website.

Source: Polygon

Steam hits 8M concurrent users milestone during Summer Sale Encore Day

Steam reached more than 8 million concurrent users over the weekend, breaking a new milestone for Valve's distribution platform Steam usage, according to its stats page (picked up by NeoGAF).

The platform reached peak usage of 8,020,813 concurrent members on June 29 at midday, during its Steam Summer Sale Encore Day. The Summer Sale launched last week and is scheduled to conclude June 30 at 7:00 a.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PDT.

Steam broke the 7-million-user mark in early December and 7.5 million users over the Christmas period. Valve surpassed 6 million concurrent users for the first time in November 2012. The company revealed in October that the number of users increased by 30 percent in a year to reach more than 65 million total Steam accounts. Valve announced during it Steam Dev Days in January that the increased to 75 million active users.

Source: Polygon