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“Fake game” removed from Steam after allegedly stealing over $150k from players

“Fake game” removed from Steam after allegedly stealing over 0k from players

An apparently fake game has been removed from Valve’s Steam platform after allegedly stealing more than $150,000 from players. The game, BlockBlasters, was a free-to-play retro platformer published by Genesis Interactive. It launched on July 30 and appeared safe at first, but security researchers say a malicious cryptodrainer component was added on August 30. The game remained available on Steam …

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Streamer loses $32,000 after playing scam Steam game during charity livestream

Streamer loses ,000 after playing scam Steam game during charity livestream

The internet contains multitudes. For every person willing to donate to a streamer with cancer to raise funds for their treatment, there’s a scammer looking for an opportunity to steal it all. That’s what happened to streamer ‘RastalandTV’, who was raising money for his cancer treatment on crypto streaming service pump.fun. A viewer hopped into his chat and asked him …

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Steam game removed after cryptostealer takes over $150K

Steam game removed after cryptostealer takes over 0K

Steam has taken down a game containing malware that drained the cryptocurrency wallets belonging to hundreds of players, as reported earlier by Bleeping Computer. The free-to-play 2D platformer, titled BlockBlasters, took more than $150,000 from victims, including $32,000 from a streamer raising funds for their cancer treatment. In a post on X, malware tracker vx-underground revealed that bad actors targeted …

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Steam Bug Botched This Indie Game’s Launch, Now It’s Getting A Second Chance

Steam Bug Botched This Indie Game’s Launch, Now It’s Getting A Second Chance

For the better part of a decade, French gaming developers Laurent Lechat and Boris Marmontel had their game Planet Centauri in early access on Steam. However, the game’s 1.0 launch arrived last year with a resounding thud, and Valve is accepting the blame for not notifying the 100,000-plus players who had wishlisted it on Steam. In a recent post on …

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The Steam Deck LCD is 20 percent off through October 6th

The Steam Deck LCD is 20 percent off through October 6th

The Steam Autumn Sale starts next Monday, but Valve dropped an early treat in the form of a rare Steam Deck LCD discount. The 256GB model that normally sells for $399.99 is $319.20 through October 6th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. I, for one, thank Valve for dropping this deal now instead of when the servers inevitably hiccup at …

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The Steam Deck Just Went On Sale And Is Killing The Competition On Price

The Steam Deck Just Went On Sale And Is Killing The Competition On Price

Despite a trade war and rising inflation, the three-year-old Steam Deck hasn’t gone up in price yet. In fact, it just got a pretty major discount. The $400 LCD model will be 20 percent off for the 2025 fall Steam sale. That makes it significantly cheaper than just about every other current-gen gaming device on the market right now, including …

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Steam is ending support for Windows 32-bit next year

Steam is ending support for Windows 32-bit next year

Steam is officially dropping Windows 32-bit support at the end of this year, the company today. The only 32-bit version of Windows that is currently supported by Steam is Windows 10 32-bit. The company says 0.01 percent of systems reported through the Steam Hardware Survey are using that version of Windows. On any given day, Steam sees just over , …

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Skate Goes Viral As Players Find Unusual Ways of Traveling, But It Isn’t Enough To Counter a ‘Mixed’ Steam Review Score

Skate Goes Viral As Players Find Unusual Ways of Traveling, But It Isn’t Enough To Counter a ‘Mixed’ Steam Review Score

The long-awaited next-generation entry in the skateboarding series Skate is finally here, and some of the best moments we’ve seen shared by players so far don’t even include a skateboard. A cursory glance on social media will bring up a whole host of viral clips wherein players are rolling, spread-eagling, falling, and sliding across Skate’s maps. Or, as this player …

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‘My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play’ — Randy Pitchford Is at the ‘Get a Refund From Steam’ Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash

‘My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play’ — Randy Pitchford Is at the ‘Get a Refund From Steam’ Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash

Randy Pitchford has continued his social media push to address complaints about the performance of the PC version of Borderlands 4, telling some disgruntled players they can get a Steam refund if they’re unhappy with the game. Since Borderlands 4’s huge Steam launch last week, Pitchford has issued confusing comments on why the console version of Borderlands 4 lacks a …

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