Cor, video games did big numbers over the weekend, with Marvel Rivals reaching 10 million players, and Steam breaking its own concurrent user count for the umpteenth time.

It turns out that people like video games, in fact, like both Marvel Rivals and Steam numbers were pretty ridiculous this weekend.

Did you know that video games are very popular? Who could have guessed! Certainly not me, a games journalist who writes about them for a living. And yet here we are, with Marvel Rivals continuing to prove very successful after launching things with a player count of 444,000 just hours after launching (which went up to 480,990 on Steam yesterday by the way), the official Twitter account of the game said that it had reached a total of 10 million players … in just 72 hours. Pretty wild numbers, but honestly with Marvel even more popular than it already was Overwatch which was first launched back in 2016, the two seemed to connect as a game that was destined to succeed.

It's not just Marvel Rivals that is doing well on Steam anyway, but on Steam itself. That was just last September Valve broke another user account at the same time on Steam with more than 38,360,000 players logged into the digital video game storefront at the same time, but this weekend saw that client up all the way to 39,200,000 (via SteamDB). Now I'm not very good at math, but even I can see that's an increase of almost a million, which again, is pretty ridiculous! And clearly puts Steam on the way to reach 40,000,000 concurrent users within a few months, at a rate that will continue to break records.

Just to be clear, this doesn't mean that 39,200,000 were all playing games at the same time, it's just the number of people logged in at the same time, but it's still shows how well Steam is doing (and makes it even more amazing that Valve exists. facing a class action lawsuit). Video games! People love them.