South Korean online game 'Lost Ark' shatters record on Steam with half a million concurrent players

The long-awaited South Korean online game “Lost Ark” does not officially launch in Western markets until Feb. 11, but it already broke a record when over 500,000 gamers played concurrently on Steam. The game’s peak number of concurrent players is currently 532,476, landing in sixth place on video game distributor Steam’s all-time list following “New World,” “Cyberpunk 2077,” “Dota 2,” “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive” and “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds,” IGN reported. “Lost Ark” also currently remains the top viewed game on Twitch with more than 600,000 fans watching their favorite streamers, as of this writing.

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