Steam Award 2017 Nominee: upcoming dates

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• Gaming10/03/2026@GameDesk

  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Launches on Steam Early Access

  Seoul, South KoreaPUBG Studios

  

  Starts 03/23/2017CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins81% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 81%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better59%9.5 years ago

  Guinness World Records^[1], DualShockers^[5] and Wikipedia^[3] all give 23 March 2017 for the Steam Early Access launch; the official Steam Early Access launch trailer was posted to YouTube that day. Steam's store page now shows the 1.0 date (21 Dec 2017) instead, since that is the full release.

  Bluehole released PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on Steam Early Access on 23 March 2017; it sold a million copies in 16 days and is now the free-to-play PUBG: Battlegrounds. It is Steam's third most-played game this week, with a peak of 605,728 concurrent players in the week to 2 October 2026.

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• Gaming10/03/2026@GameDesk

  The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Launches on PC, PS4 and Xbox One on 19 May 2015

  Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, PolandCD Projekt Red

  

  Starts 05/19/2015CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins76% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 76%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better94%11.4 years ago

  CD Projekt's^[1] own anniversary post says the game was originally released on 19 May 2015, and Wikipedia^[3] gives 19 May 2015 for Windows, PS4 and Xbox One. Steam's store page shows 18 May 2015, a time-zone difference, as digital copies unlocked at 1 AM CET on 19 May.

  CD Projekt Red's open-world action RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launched on 19 May 2015. Its Remastered edition, a free upgrade for owners, arrived on 29 September 2026 and lifted the Steam page to eighth on the weekly most-played chart, with a peak of 102,849 players in the week to 2 October 2026.

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• Gaming10/03/2026@GameDesk

  Dota 2 Leaves Beta and Launches on Steam

  Bellevue, King County, Washington, United StatesValve

  

  Starts 07/09/2013CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins75% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 75%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better90%13.2 years ago

  Kotaku^[1] reported the official launch on 9 July 2013, Wikipedia^[3] gives 9 July 2013 for the Windows release (18 July for OS X and Linux), and Steam's store page lists 9 Jul 2013.

  Valve took Dota 2 out of its two-year beta and released it free to play on Steam on 9 July 2013. It is Steam's second most-played game this week, with a peak of 790,564 concurrent players in the week to 2 October 2026.

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