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Valve’s open door policy for Steam is backfiring

Valve, the company behind the Steam gaming platform, is currently under investigation by the Brazilian government after allowing a controversial game to be sold on its platform. While the platform ... read more

Itch.io founder brands Valve's open-door Steam policy 'ridiculous'

Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran has branded Valve's lackadaisical open-door Steam content policy "out of touch" and "ridiculous." Corcoran's comments refer to a blog post shared by Valve, where the comp... read more

China’s hottest new game is a wuxia universe created by an amateur coder

China’s indie game developers are relying on US platform Steam, which has not officially launched in China but is not blocked by Chinese censors either, to sell their titles in the country. Valve Corp ... read more

Valve Steam Link PC Game Streaming App Could Get Reprieve With Apple's Revised App Store Rules

Last month, Valve launched ... seemed to leave the door open for the Steam Link app to be allowed in the App Store, and it looks as though the revision of Apple's rules is geared towards making that h... read more

Steam's removal of the 'Active Shooter' game addresses a symptom, not the cause

The fact remains, there's no clear content moderation or curation policy ... conflicts." Valve's content controls on Steam aren't clear, and in fact seem rather arbitrary most of the time. Apple's Phi... read more

Why Steam Family Sharing Is Largely Pointless

Steam Family Sharing instead makes sharing more convenient, and it’s a policy ... Had Valve tried this three to four years ago, they might have been able to brute force the issue through sheer market ... read more

CD Projekt: An Incredible 'Game'plan

CD Projekt joins a crowded market, dominated by Valve's (private ... While until recently Steam didn't offer refunds (and has strict return policies), GOG has led the way. They offer a 30-day refund p... read more

Trudeau needs to drop open borders language

Huh? We don’t have an open door policy. But, as a recent Reuters story explained, these posts have already inspired prospective refugees to head to Canada, thinking Trudeau had called out to them and ... read more

Steam’s hands-off approach is the only one it could take

Valve yesterday announced it was revising its policy ... allowed on Steam — from now on, all games will be allowed, with no exceptions solely for “offensive” content. The company’s announcement outlin... read more

Apple Leaves Door Open for Valve's Steam Link App, Would Love to See It on iOS

It would appear that Valve's Steam Link app may soon be released on iOS for iPhone and iPad users, as Apple's Phil Schiller informed the community that they left the door open for Valve's game streami... read more

Here’s the one thing that Valve hopes to get out of its Steam Dev Days conference

... the larger presentations and make them available online after Steam Dev Days ends. Despite the closed-off nature, Valve doesn’t plan to use this event to make behind-closed-door deals to get exclu... read more

Why Destiny 2 is on Blizzard’s launcher, not Steam

Destiny 2 is coming to PC … eventually, but it’s not coming to Steam. But this doesn’t signify that Activision Blizzard is preparing to battle Valve over selling third ... noting that the company left ... read more