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Steam sales grow, despite influx of competition

Despite increased competition last year, Valve’s digital distribution platform Steam managed to increase year-over-year unit sales by over 100 percent for the seventh straight year in 2011. Steam grew sales for its 8-year-old PC games download service in the face of newly launched competitors from other major companies, such as Apple’s Mac App Store and Electronic Arts’ Origin. As Steam expanded its userbase to more than 40 million accounts and its game selection to over …