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Last week, Steam quietly announced a new rule banning “certain kinds of adult-only content” that “may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks.” Following this, reporter Ana Valens wrote a series of stories on Vice’s video games vertical Waypoint about an organization called Collective Shout that took credit for the …

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 …

After 3 years of holding out, I finally bought a Steam Deck thanks to the same logic I used to talk myself out of a Switch 2  GamesRadar+ Switch 2 vs. Steam Deck: Battle of the Handhelds  CNET Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: testing Valve’s OLED model against the new Nintendo hybrid  Eurogamer Video: Switch 2 Vs. Steam Deck System Face-Off, Digital Foundry …

Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube828k Digital Foundry has returned with a new “system face-off” video – this time putting Nintendo’s hybrid hardware, the Switch 2, up against Valve’s PC handheld, the Steam Deck. In the video above, you can see how the Switch 2 holds up against the Steam Deck OLED model across various “head-to-head” match-ups, …

The Switch 2 versus the Steam Deck is a compelling match-up: Nintendo’s brand new portable hybrid paired up against Valve’s handheld PC. Conceptually, these devices diverge in some crucial aspects, but they do align in form factor and usage patterns. Which portable powerhouse takes the performance crown? And how do they compare in day-to-day use – in terms of their …

Update: Gunzilla Games has announced that Off The Grid is available now on Steam. Prior to today, we only knew the game was arriving on the biggest PC storefront soon, but the free-to-play battle royale title surprise-launched earlier today. That now brings the title’s platform list to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via both Steam and the Epic …

This content was produced in collaboration with Valnet Inc. and the sponsor, Gunzilla Games. The free-to-play title has steadily gained popularity since that time, thanks to its fluid third-person, fast paced gameplay, vast array of looting possibilities, and consistent, thoughtfully crafted updates that keep the in-game experience fresh. Players are especially drawn to Off The Grid’s unique mechanic of switchable …

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 …

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 …