Elders Scroll V: Skyrim now the Top Played Game on Steam, 250,000 concurrent users on Day one

Nov 12, 2011 at 02:54pm EST

It has just been a day since Bethesda's new Elders Scroll game "Skyrim" was released and it has already got 250,000 concurrent users playing it on Day One of its launch. Scoring a 94/100 on Metacritic  and a handful of positive reviews from major gaming sites such as IGN and PCGamer, Elders Scroll: Skyrim is with a doubt a top game of the year contender for 2011.

The game has even surpassed FPS Giant Activison's COD:Modern Warfare 3 second at 78,161 users on Steam against Skyrim's 231,593 players in its first 24 Hours and the numbers continue to rise. The game itself is spectacular with a completely new graphics engine known as Creation featuring breathtaking environments and a complete FPS RPG Experience.

You can buy the game from Steam for 59.99$ over here, Expect a review from us on Skyrim pretty soon. 😉

About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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