It’s Mastercard’s world; we just live in it. That’s my understanding based on a recent communiqué from Valve to PC Gamer, which confirmed that, yup, the company sure did recently remove a whole spate of adult games from its storefront because it made payment processors upset. “We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate the rules and …
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UPDATE 18/7/25: In response to questions from Eurogamer regarding Steam’s new guidelines preventing “certain types of adult content” from being distributed on the platform, Valve has provided some general background on the events leading to the decision. “We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate the rules and standards set forth by our payment processors and …
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Valve have updated Steam’s rules and regulations to prohibit games that “may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers”. And in particular, “certain kinds of adult only content”. In other words, they are giving banks, ISPs and credit card companies some degree of control over Steam’s …
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Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam. Recently, a number of people noticed and posted across various Reddits that PayPal has been unavailable for days, so it’s possible this is all coming from PayPal but nothing has been confirmed on that. On …
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“South Park” has been removed from Paramount+. All 26 seasons of the popular animated comedy series are no longer available on the streaming service. While nine ‘South Park’ specials remain accessible, including ‘South Park: The End of Obesity’ and ‘South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert,’ the main series has been completely wiped from the platform. Initially, some reports, including from …
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