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Over the past few weeks, thousands of video games have been banned, removed and delisted from Steam and Itch.io. The justifications for doing so have been almost comically vague, and at least one highly anticipated title is now unable to be sold despite containing nothing objectionable. It started in early July, when payment processors including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal established …

Two of the biggest digital games stores have stopped selling thousands of titles following pressure from a coalition of anti-porn advocates and the world’s biggest payment processing companies. It’s happened before, will likely happen again, and is suppressing art, free expression, and marginalized creators. Last week, the indie gaming storefront itch.io sent out a sudden notice to the creators that …

Valve have released a revamped Steam store menu in beta, so folks can give a number of changes a whirl and offer feedback ahead of the full rollout. As the pipe-themed company wrote in a news post about the menu emerging from the labs for this testing, the main goal of its changes is to offer “easier access to the …

The other day I was on my way to get drinks with some friends after work, but in my head, I was still at work. I had just spent a 45-minute subway ride with my nose buried in my Steam Deck playing Kaizen: A Factory Story. Set in 1980s Japan, the inventive new project from Coincidence (a studio formed by …

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 …

Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules  Hacker News Steam introduces vague new rules banning ‘certain kinds of adult content’ to appease credit card companies  Eurogamer Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed  GamingOnLinux Steam rules updated to prohibit content that violates rules set forth by payment processors and …

Valve have updated Steam’s rules and regulations to prohibit games that “may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers”. And in particular, “certain kinds of adult only content”. In other words, they are giving banks, ISPs and credit card companies some degree of control over Steam’s …

If you’ve played the (now-defunct) Mimimi Games’ incredible trio of stealth games (Shadow Tactics, Desperados III, Shadow Gambit), you may think you know exactly what you’re getting from the upcoming Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream. Made by Swedish developer River End Games, Eriksholm sure looks a lot like a Mimimi title, with its pulled-backed camera perspective, environments littered with places for …