◆ Since 2011, more than US$57 million has been paid out to the 1,500 or so people creating and selling content for Valve games via the Steam Workshop, says Valve. The company also announced that it has also begun supporting paid Steam Workshops for non-Valve games, starting with Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and Dungeon Defenders: Eternity. Previously,. Only content created for Valve games could be monetised.

◆ Here’s what your Twitter replies look like when you are Anita Sarkeesian, and here’s some of the other things these people tweet about.

◆ Plague Inc. players have donated US$76,000 to organisations fighting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the game’s developer has announced.

◆ There is now a selfie camera in World of Warcraft.

◆ Super Galaxy Squadron is a retro space shmup that is proudly not a bullet hell shooter. Some proceeds from the game’s sale go to charity, apparently.

◆ Someone paid US$129,000 for PlayStation 4 20th Anniversary Edition console #00001. A total of 12,300 anniversary consoles were produced.

◆ Three million copies of DayZ have been sold on Early Access.

◆ Call of Duty teams from Australia, New Zealand, and Asia will compete in the APAC Regional finals on February 14 at CarriageWorks in Sydney. The top three teams will go on to represent APAC at the Global Championships in Los Angeles. Tickets to watch the event live at the CarriageWorks are available for free here. The event will be streamed here, and there is more info here.

◆ Weird PC physics game I Am Bread is coming to iOS later this year.

◆ Gearbox is hiring for Borderlands 3:

◆ The Xbox Games With Gold titles for February are: #IDARB (available from Feb. 1 – 28 on Xbox One), Brothers: Tale of Two Sons (available from Feb. 1 – 15 on Xbox 360), and Sniper Elite V2 (available from Feb. 16 – 28 on Xbox 360).

◆ Far Cry 4’s Hurk Deluxe expansion is now available. It includes five missions playable in singleplayer, as well as an arsenal of new weapons including a harpoon gun for Hurk.

◆ The first DLC pack for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is available now. Havoc includes four new multiplayer maps, access to the versatile AE4 directed energy assault rifle, the AE4 Widowmaker custom variant, and an all-new zombies cooperative mode called Exo Zombies.

◆ A whole 14 years after development began, free online MMO 8BitMMO has launched on PC. Apparently it features a user-built world that is larger than the combined landmass of the United Kingdom. More info here.

◆ Multi-award-winning iPad action adventure game Badland is coming to PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PS Vita this autumn as Badland: Game of the Year Edition.

◆ Daedalic Entertainment has announced that upcoming adventure game Silence will be coming to PlayStation 4. It was previously announced for just Xbox One, PC, and Mac.

◆ The Iron Brotherhood content update has added three new Soviet heavy tanks to World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition.

◆ In case you missed it, Trials Fusion now has an online multiplayer mode, and it’s free to download.

◆ Next month at the Game Developers Choice Awards, Brenda Romero (Wizardry) will receive the Ambassador Award for helping games "advance to a better place", and David Braben (Elite) will accept the Pioneer Award for producing breakthrough technological and game design milestones.

◆ Sony has announced that it will end support for the PlayStation Vita's Maps, Near, and YouTube apps in a forthcoming system update. YouTube will still be available via the system’s browser, of course.

◆ What’s better – Skyrim or Fallout? Here’s one answer: