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STEAM Now Used By 15 Million Gamers; 2007 Sales Growth Up 158%

By Alex Petraglia on Saturday, February 9, 2008 at 4:30 PM EST  

Valve had two dizzying figures for us today: there are now 15 million registered STEAM accounts, while STEAM sales increased 158% year-over-year through the 2007 holiday season.

For this, the studio thanks best-selling titles of 2007 like Call of Duty 4, BioShock, and of course, The Orange Box.

Gabe was feeling a bit chatty, and had this to share:

“PC gaming is thriving, and has evolved into an era of constant connectivity. That connectivity gives us the ability to have a much better relationship with customers, not just for delivering our games, but across all aspects of our business - including the design, development, and support of our games. Features like Guest Passes, Free Weekends, Gifting, and the Steam Community have been very well received both by customers and the developers who are using Steam. We are accelerating our release of new functionality in the next year as well as finding new ways to work with our partners such as the release of Steamworks, which allows them to bring the many benefits of Steam to their packaged products.”

Coming in 2008 are new Community features, Steamworks (free STEAM-powered game development and distribution solutions), and the in-house multiplayer zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead.

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