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Ubisoft’s own shareholders have directly challenged the publisher to respond to the huge swell of support behind Stop Killing Games – a consumer movement generated by Ubisoft’s decision to take The Crew offline last year. Stop Killing Games was launched last April by Accursed Farms YouTuber Ross Scott, calling upon video game fans around the world to petition their local …

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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 …

The playable protagonists of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Screenshot: Ubisoft, captured by Game File In a moment that saw Twitter/X briefly become real life, Ubisoft’s CEO was face to face last week with a shareholder and gamer who pressed him on two of the most strident online criticisms against the company: one expressing animus over the Black samurai in this year’s …

Steam games disclosing the use of generative AI have increased by 800% so far this year. That’s according to an analysis of generative AI games on Steam by Totally Human, which suggests that nearly 8,000 titles released on Steam now disclose GenAI usage, compared to 1,000 a year ago. That’s 7% of the total Steam library, and 20% of all …

Valve is tightening its guidelines around ‘adult only’ content to satisfy rules set by Steam’s payment processing partners, with dozens of sexually explicit games removed from the platform throughout the week. As spotted by GameSpark and shared by Automaton, SteamDB logs show a flurry of activity behind the scenes as Steam updated its ‘Rules and Guidelines’ policy, making it clear …

Video GamesVideo GamesThe first half of the year brought a new gaming console and a stacked slate of fantastic games. Here are the best of them. Getty Images/Ringer illustration By Matt James, Ben LindberghJuly 18, 1:24 pm UTC • 10 min It’s been a typically tumultuous year in gaming, marked by a new console launch, layoffs and studio closures, and …

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 …

When Nintendo first announced the Switch 2’s slate of launch titles, people were very quick to cry foul about how few original, exclusive games the company had lined up for its latest console. There were ports from other systems and updated versions of original Switch games. But Mario Kart World was the Switch 2’s only major new exclusive title, which, …

Editor’s note: All week, The Athletic is looking back at the best of the first 25 years of the 2000s in men’s college basketball. Also read the top 25 players, top 25 coaches, top 25 teams and top 25 non-title teams, and submit your own picks. By Brendan Marks, CJ Moore and Lindsay Schnell There are, on average, over 5,800 college basketball games every season. Multiply …