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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we've got you covered.Subscribe to our newsletter Maybe it's a coincidence and maybe it's not, but as the Artemis 2 spacecraft comes rolling around the moon like Jimmy Kirk and co. heading off to save the whales, the aging reach-for-the-stars simulator, achieving the highest concurrent player count the game has seen since it launched into 1.0 more than a decade ago. Kerbal Space Program debuted in April 2015 and has remained popular despite its age—you can still reliably find at least a few thousand people playing on Steam at any given moment. Over the past two weeks, though, that number has shot way up: Not enough to put it back among the top 100 most played games on Steam, but it's awfully close.And the answer sure seems to be NASA's Artemis 2, which after years of over-promised, under-delivering vanity projects from self-indulgent billionaires has managed to make space exploration cool again. Overwatch creeps past Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty's concurrent players on Steam, hitting its biggest peak in years Crimson Desert players are visiting space and finding that Pearl Abyss modelled a really weird amount of itFake Artemis tracker? Thought I was watching the NASA stream until the camera switched to show a group of weird frogs inside!So happy to hear that Artemis II will be passing by the moon today... seriously, it couldn't come at a better time"I was trying to explain the Artemis II mission to my gf, and eventually said 'hold on, let me just show you' and downloaded KSP to fly it lol," redditwrote."Been a few years, but I still got it! Built my best KSP approximation of the ship , put er in orbit first try, found my mun intercept, wrapped around the back side, and back to Kerbin without issue… and then I realized I forgot parachutes." "Was watching the live stream of Artemis with my son, he looks at me and says “dad, this makes me want to play KSP!”Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsMy guess is that those KSP numbers will tail off once Artemis 2 returns home, but for now it's great to see the game enjoying a resurgence. And who knows? It sounds like an awful lot of newcomers are being introduced to the game, so maybe this will prove more durable than I expect.also saw a notable bump in player numbers, although not nearly so dramatic, nor enough to turn its infamously flagging ship around: It hit a peak concurrent player count on Steam of 370 on April 5, up from a high of 118 a month earlier. Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. 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