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A major credit card issuer has just added American Airlines as a transfer partner. Citi on Sunday announced the launch of 1:1 transfers from its ThankYou Rewards program to American’s AAdvantage loyalty program for three of the rewards cards in its lineup. The move has made Citi the only card issuer with direct transfers to American, one of the three …

BOSTON — The thousands of Dodgers fans at Fenway Park erupted in the first inning Saturday when superstar Shohei Ohtani led off the game with a 414-foot, 108.5 mph home run to center field against Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet. “That was Dodger Stadium-like, to be honest with you,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. “I’ve never seen so many …

Image: Square Enix As a fight with credit card companies over adult games leads to renewed concerns about censorship on Steam and even on indie platforms like itch.io, a recent warning by Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro calling censorship a “security hole that endangers democracy itself” has become relevant again. I Hate This FF7 Rebirth Character’s Whole Vibe The comments …

Florida police have arrested a Chuck E Cheese mascot for credit card fraud, telling him “Chuck E, come with me” and leading him away in handcuffs while still in his gigantic mouse head costume as horrified children looked on. Police confirmed to the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper that they had arrested Jermell Jones, an employee of the chain of family entertainment …

Valve recently changed Steam’s rules and regulations to give banks, payment processors, and internet service providers some control over the definition of acceptable “adult content” on Steam, in line with their own respective policies. As Valve suggested to RPS in a statement, it was either that or risk a credit card firm or bank blocking Steam purchases at large. Alongside …

New Federal Tax Credit Boosts School Choice—but Blue States Face Big Decision  The Wall Street Journal New federal vouchers could be “stacked” onto Arizona school choice programs  Axios What the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will change for students, schools and colleges  NPR Congress gives school choice back to Illinois’ low-income students  Illinois Policy Trump’s private school vouchers create ‘conundrum’ for blue states on whether …

Published 11:51 20 Jul 2025 GMT+1 Save up for that big release The Steam Summer Sale may have just recently ended, but that doesn’t mean our backlogs aren’t completely filled. After all, what’s another RPG to add to your library, or a few more visual novels. It might be a good time to start saving up. However, if you want …

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games  Hacker News Patch Notes #14: Steam wages war on porn, Krafton accused of going nuclear, and King reportedly swaps humans for AI tools  Game Developer Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed  GamingOnLinux Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it …

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 …

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 …