Welcome back to the Club 250 newsletter! The headline feature of this update is Watchlists, but we have plenty of other goodies too! Watchlists allow you to keep track of interesting games. They ar...
2025-01-08 17:23:16 +0000 UTC View Post
What major new features were added since January? Tags! We greatly enhanced the Club 250 tag pages, adding detailed descriptions for every tag, typically with a detailed breakdown of the common...
Happy New Year! What do we have in store this time? There have been some major features and many smaller ones since last update. Let's kick off 2024 with a review of the latest updates to Club 250!...
2024-01-06 12:52:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Update time! Steam 250 just had its 5th birthday in November 2022, so it's a little late to celebrate, but we can probably still get away with a tada emoji: 🎉! It's been about a year si...
2023-03-03 14:44:13 +0000 UTC View PostHello lovely patrons! I don't like to spam you with over-communication, and past posts have had fairly low engagement, so I wasn't going to post until I had something exciting to share, but we're w...
2022-12-17 17:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We've been hard at work to bring you our first email featurette: the Club 250 Weekly Edition! Each week we can del...
2022-03-11 23:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A warm welcome to all our new Patrons! We're on the road to leaving the Club 250 beta period soon, and as such, we're moving some of our premium features behind the paywall instead of giving them a...
2021-11-02 08:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In August we brought you two major new features: cross-site synchronised Steam login and the poster-child for this month's update, Patreon account linking!
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2021-09-05 16:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I owe you guys an update, it's been a little while! I don't get a lot of feedback on these posts so I don't know what you guys want to read about. We usually do a recap and a bit of looking forward...
2021-07-20 10:40:59 +0000 UTC View Post
It has been less than 3 weeks since our last update when we introduced the advanced search in the form of 2021-03-05 12:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We did it! We finally launched the first version of our Custom Ranking tool, AKA Power Search AKA multi-tag search; ...
2021-02-15 21:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year patrons new and old! We have a few new members this month so a warm welcome to those who recently pledged, and along with them, we have tons to cover in this month's update so let's ...
2021-01-07 23:34:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of November was spent fixing backend issues, which won't be very interesting to most of our readers, so I'll keep this paragraph brief. We're exhausting our daily IOPS on the database backend,...
2020-12-08 18:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We hit our first target quite early in October, backfilling all game pricing history data and publishing an interactive chart to explore it. As a big bonus, we teamed up with 2020-11-10 20:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month may have looked quiet, but suffice it to say, I was working all month to accomplish what I set out to do: improve Club 250's back end to have consistent daily updates like Steam...
2020-10-03 15:07:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Lots of new stuff this month. First up, we have a proper game title search now. The search bar use...
2020-09-04 13:48:43 +0000 UTC View Post
For a long time we wanted to create a new Steam 250 homepage with a dashboard interface to give a clear overview of many of the rankings on offer. Until now, the homepage was our signature Top 250 ...
2020-08-08 09:53:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's almost been a month since Club 250 went live and we've accomplished a lot in that short time. So much work has been done behind the scenes but also on the scenes, and I wanted to showcase a
Club 250 features are now live across the site. Simply click on any game title to be taken to the new game details page....
2020-06-08 18:00:38 +0000 UTC View PostExcited to announce the very first iteration of Club 250, with full ranking history for every game on Steam, is just around the corner. Will be going live within the next week. If you want a ...
2020-06-02 12:45:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the March update. It's a little late this month because every day I delay making this post, the more exciting things I have to show. That's largely because I quit my job of 16 months jus...
2020-04-13 16:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostTotal review backfilling was completed in February just as planned! We now have all reviews for all games on Steam, and with that, we can generate rankings since 2010-10-15, when the review system ...
2020-03-05 22:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Review backfilling has begun and we're starting with the biggest games on Steam. Backfilling means downloading all the reviews for a particular game so we can chart its entire performance ...
2020-02-03 23:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, the new ranking for trending games is out now! This works a little differently to our other rankings, because whil...
2020-01-01 22:57:27 +0000 UTC View PostI'm really excited to be working on the Club 250 website. It's the same kind of excitement as when we first started the Steam 250 project just over two years ago, all over again. To that end, I'm r...
2019-12-31 23:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostOn the new features front, we added USD prices across all rankings to give some idea of cost, even for non-US users. I wanted to take this further and make showing prices, tags and other things cus...
2019-11-09 11:38:10 +0000 UTC View PostHey Patrons!
As ever, thanks so much for your continued support. We've removed advertising this month, so Patreon is now the only way Steam 250 is supported. This is not a commitment to never...
2019-09-11 14:55:30 +0000 UTC View PostI feel responsible for providing regular updates, especially since several new members joined us recently, but feel guilty about not having much to share. Work is proceeding behind the scenes, but ...
2019-07-13 07:43:03 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to give you guys an update because I'm still hard at work on the site, even though there's nothing particularly interesting to share at this stage. I'm writing our infrastructure as code t...
2019-05-06 09:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Let it never be said I don't deliver a few surprises from time to time; this month I bring you game trailers embedded in our new video player! Live on site right now, clicking any ...
2019-03-04 21:43:13 +0000 UTC View Post