It has been pointed out that Steam hit 5 million simultaneous users this morning. That's a new record, set with a substantial margin. Last September Steam set its previous record with 4 million users online at the same time. Comparatively, for the sake of fan-boy arguments, the highest number of concurrent players on Xbox LIVE was 3.3 million users on November 8, 2011. Of course, these numbers don't account for all PC gamers, just those on Steam at that moment. A breakdown reveals that the most pl...

PC game sales already out-perform any individual console, but the latest predictions discussed on an Nvidia conference call promote the idea that by 2014 PC game sales will surpass all consoles, combined. Their claims are based on the growth of PC gaming software over the past few years, as well as the stagnation of console software - and they have some DFC Intelligence data to back it up. The growth of PC gaming can largely be attributed to the rapid surge in digital sales, as boxed copies of P...