Steam Surges: The Impact of New Blockbusters on User Engagement

As more details come out about the arrest of the founder of Telegram, a deeper look at Pavel Durov himself. We have the date of the iPhone event. We have a new record gaming number from Steam. And are Apple’s experiment with big budget Hollywood movies losing them bucket loads of money?

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Links:

• Telegram Founder’s Arrest Part of Broad Investigation, French Prosecutors Say (NYTimes)
• Macron loves Telegram. French judges hate it. (Politico)
• How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man (NYTimes)
• Steam surpasses 37 million concurrent users for the first time ever thanks to Black Myth: Wukong (PC Gamer)
• Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick (TechCrunch)
• Apple Rethinks Its Movie Strategy After a String of Misses (NYTimes)

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