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What makes a “troll game”? Valve tries for a Steam-wide definition

... agree that Steam should remove developers that are "trying to scam folks out of their Steam inventory items" or those "looking for a way to generate a small amount of money off Steam through ... read more

Valve is changing the way games with nudity, violence, and sexual content are presented on Steam

"Some trolls are trying to scam folks out of their Steam inventory items, others are looking for a way to generate a small amount of money off Steam through a series of schemes that revolve around how ... read more

Steam Pulled an Indie Game Accused of Being an Elaborate Cryptocurrency Mining Scam

“Abstractism Launcher and Abstractism Inventory Service are not Bitcoin miner (and are not Monero miner too, honestly),” the patch notes said, referring to two executables the game runs. “These apps a... read more

Popular Steam extension could be spying on users

A popular extension that helps gamers buy and sell digital goods on the Steam platform is now attempting to track their movements all over the web. Steam Inventory Helper, or SIH, today prompted users ... read more

Valve Launches Steam Inventory Service for Steamworks Developers

Valve is improving its Steam service each day and the latest addition to the long list of features added this year is a new Steamworks SDK update that enables persistent inventory. The new feature is ... read more

Investigative RPG HellSign is coming to Steam early access

Also worth noting is the interplay between research and your inventory. By selecting the spook ... HellSign is due out on Steam early access on November 7. read more

The hat economy: Digital goods revenue grows as Valve expands tools for developers and community

“Valve launched the Steam Inventory Service beta and expanded the Steam Workshop last month,” said SuperData lead researcher and founder Joost van Dreunen. “Steam Inventory Service will help developer... read more

The gaming industry can become the next big target of cybercrime

Once the intruder gains access to victims’ credentials, they not only siphon the financial data related to the account, but also take advantage of the possible assets stored in the account and sell th... read more

Valve to officially launch Steam in China

A few months ago, Steam Community was blocked in China with no warning, giving gamers no access to the user inventory and profile pages, however access to the store was still available. Mashable is a ... read more

Chrome Extensions Steal Your Steam Inventory

A crafty Steam user created four Chrome extensions that would empty out his victim's Steam inventory and send all their game perks to the extension's owner. First signs that something was wrong were s... read more

Valve Disables Item Trading for Dutch 'Counter-Strike' Players, Making Their Expensive Gun Skins Worthless

"Now stuck with a €100+ inventory, but some of my friends have €1000+." To be clear, that means that their inventory on Steam could have been sold on the Steam marketplace for over a hundred Euros. If ... read more