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Not in his 135,000 sq.ft office but video game billionaire Gabe Newell works seven days a week remotely, from the master suite of his $250 million superyacht, Tranquility, reviewing Steam updates between scuba dives and streaming from the Mediterranean  Luxurylaunches Gabe Newell says he ditched Microsoft and made Valve and Half-Life to prove “a better approach to game design” at a …

Just a little over a week after Steam updated its guidelines to prohibit content that “may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks,” specifically adult-only content, and days after itch.io shared that it, too, had removed games that would put it in direct conflict with its payment processors, gamers around the world …

by William D’Angelo , posted 1 day ago / 4,497 Views A Sony Interactive Entertainment job listing has revealed Sony plans to expand PlayStation Studios titles to more platforms, including Xbox, Nintendo, Steam, Epic Games Store, and mobile. The job is for a Senior Director of Multiplatform & Account Management and will be reporting to the Vice President. “Reporting to …

Over the past year, Microsoft leapt first into some controversial decisions regarding its first party Xbox games output, putting previously exclusive titles like Forza Horizon and many others onto rival consoles. At the time, Xbox’s efforts to give up on console exclusives looked like a swan song for the embattled platform. Microsoft’s Xbox hardware sales continue to look bleak on …

A threat actor called EncryptHub has compromised a game on Steam to distribute info-stealing malware to unsuspecting users downloading the title. A few days ago, the hacker (also tracked as Larva-208), injected malicious binaries into the Chemia game files hosted on Steam. Chemia is a survival crafting game from developer ‘Aether Forge Studios,’ which is currently offered as early access …

Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it’s a slippery slope  Hacker News Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam  PC Gamer Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis  Polygon Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship  WIRED Credit Card Companies Are Hurting …

Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator and developer Robert Yang, whose …

Itch.io, the digital distribution platform known for its focus on independent game developers and other artists, has “deindexed” all NSFW content following discussions with payment processors contacted by the same Australian pressure group that recently targeted Steam. Hints that something was afoot on the platform first surfaced on social media earlier today, as itch.io creators began reporting their …

The indie-focused open gaming marketplace Itch.io has abruptly deindexed adult content from its browse and search pages, warning that some games will be permanently removed from the platform. In a blog post on Thursday, Itch.io creator Leaf Corcoran said that the update was due to concerns that the website’s payment processors had “about the nature of certain content” hosted on …

Steam logo and games with banned stamp (Image source: Steam with edits) Many Steam games are no longer available at the request of payment providers. Ana Valens, formerly of Vice, believes that activist groups have too much influence over payment processors and Valve’s marketplace. The writer who labels the censorship as unjustified now finds herself out of work. Recently, Valve …