Valve's unannounced hero shooter had nearly 1,000 concurrent PC players over the past 24 hours - but the developer is staying silent

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Valve's leaked shooter had nearly 1,000 concurrent p🥂layers ove🍒r the past weekend.

Earlier this month, leaked screenshots, supposedly of an in-development hero♏ shoot🍌er from Valve, leaked online, showing characters, maps, artwork, and more. Just a few days later, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:alleged gameplay f💞ootage of Valve's new🎃 shooter, apparently named Deadlock, leaked online as well, showing 19 hero characte🌃rs and BioShock Infinite-style rails.

, the tracking database for Valve's own storefront. According to the tracker, 996 people were playing Deadlock over the past weekend, which marks an all-time high concurrent player count for the hero shooter, which hasn't even been teased, let alone fully announced, by the developer itself.

For a little added context, th💟is is 🍌more concurrent PC players than Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has had in nearly two months, since early April when its concurrent player count dipped below 1,000 for the first time. 

When Deadlock was first leaked online, one Valve leaker claimed that it was currently in the closed alpha stage of playtesting. That cou༺ld be why we've seen so many leaks of the new Valve game so far and why nearly 1,000 people played it over just the past weekend. Valve needs feedback on Deadlock, and so it would naturally expand the number of people testing it out early.

Leakers and audiences have been speculating that Valve could be about to reveal Deadlock, but an officꦐial reveal has yet to materialize. 

Check out all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PC games for more of what's to come on Valve's storefront.

Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the ind𝓰ustry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.