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The Steam store is a fundamental part of PC gaming. If you play on a computer, there’s a very high chance you’re making use of the Valve client to buy and play games. While I’m generally happy with the current experience, there’s always room for improvements, and now Valve is about to drop one of the biggest overhauls to Steam …

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 …

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 …

Valve co-founder and boss Gabe Newell has offered a rare insight into his life, talking about his days living, working, and enjoying life on a “boat.” In conversation with a YouTuber called Zalkar Saliev, who had just 19 subscribers at the time the interview clips went live (they’ve since acquired several hundred more), the 62-year-old Newell said he worked seven …

Valve boss Gabe Newell spends his days scuba diving and hanging out on a boat as well as working, but is effectively retired at this point. Newell was interviewed by YouTube channel Zalkar Saliev, which is dedicated to “powerful interviews and lifestyle stories with successful men across the US”, but with just a handful of videos so far – certainly …

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 …

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 …

Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam. Recently, a number of people noticed and posted across various Reddits that PayPal has been unavailable for days, so it’s possible this is all coming from PayPal but nothing has been confirmed on that. On …