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Major Gaming Store Delists All NSFW Games Following Pressure From Anti-Porn Campaigners
24.7.2025
Following on from Steam’s delisting of hundreds of extreme adult games, indie gaming site Itch.io has made the even more extreme move of (in some cases temporarily) removing all NSFW games from its store pages and search results. The action, made in response to pressure group Collective Shout,...
Here's What May Power The Steam Deck's Successor, But Do We Need One?
23.7.2025
This past February the Steam Deck celebrated its third birthday. And based on the rocky performance of some fairly recent AAA games on Valve’s popular handheld, Avowed and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth being two examples, it’s currently going through a bit of a terrible threes kinda situation....
Anti-Porn Group Declares Win Over 'Pedo Gamer Fetishists' After Steam's Mass Sex Game Purge
21.7.2025
Steam recently purged hundreds of sex games featuring explicit content, including many with themes around sexual abuse, after rolling out stricter moderation rules. PC gaming’s biggest storefront appeared to blame pressure from online payment processors for the changes, which some developers worry...
Steam's Wildly Unclear New Rules On 'Adult Content' Have Already Seen Hundreds Of Games Delisted
16.7.2025
If you’re a regular user of Steam, you’ll know that Valve’s industry-dominating PC games store is absolutely buried in adult-themed games. Sex stuff. Porn. So much of it. Scrolling the new release lists reveals the astonishing number of both crap and quality adult games that are released every day....
Steam Summer Sale Includes A Lot Of Great Games Marked Down To $15 Or Less
26.6.2025
Steam’s annual and massive summer sale is live! If you’ve been waiting to buy a copy of Schedule I, RoboCop: Rogue City, Borderlands 3, Anno 1800, Metro Exodus, or Dead By Daylight, this sale is for you. And if you wanted some other games instead, well, odds are they are on sale as well. It’s...
Fans Desperate For Half-Life 3 Are Tracking Gabe Newell's Superyacht In Hopes Of Manifesting A Summer Game Fest Miracle
6.6.2025
Not-E3 is in full swing today with Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest Live showcase scheduled for the evening of June 6. No one but the Game Awards host and his close circle of confidants and business partners knows what will be announced during the event, but fans are once again praying for...
Excellent Half-Life Remake Black Mesa Is Only $2
13.5.2025
Black Mesa, the fan developed remake of the original Half-Life, is currently only $2 on Steam. This is the cheapest the fantastic reimagining of Valve’s first game has ever been on the store, the big sale in honor of Black Mesa being on Steam for 10 years.Read more
Assassin’s Creed Shadows On Steam Deck Surprised Me More Than Getting Stabbed In The Neck
21.4.2025
When I heard Ubisoft claim that Assassin’s Creed Shadows would be Steam Deck verified at launch, I responded by saying “yeah right” with all the sass I could muster. I’ve tested a lot of games on Steam Deck here at Kotaku. I’ve seen games that should be slam dunks on the device fall short, and even...
Devs Behind Controversial Sexual Assault Game Defend It, But Say They're Pulling It From Steam Anyway
10.4.2025
The studio behind No Mercy, a recently released 3D visual novel featuring non-consensual sex and incest, has announced that it plans to remove the game entirely from Steam after the game attracted controversy online. Valve pulled the game from the United Kingdom version of Steam after a government...
Early Steam Deck Prototype Seemingly Sold On Ebay For $2,000
9.4.2025
Here’s something odd. Over on eBay someone seems to have spent $2,000 on a Steam Deck prototype which was being sold on the auction site for $3,000. Read more
One Of The Best Steam Sales In Years Is Happening Right Now
13.3.2025
Right now some of the best games available on Steam, including Undertale, Doom (2016), and Spiritfarer are all on sale for incredibly cheap prices. Combine that with Steam’s annual Spring Sale and you have a recipe for some fantastic discounts. Read more
Ex-Amazon Gaming Exec Explains Why No One Has Beaten Steam
21.2.2025
A surprising contradiction sits at the heart of PC gaming: the medium’s most open platform is nevertheless dominated by a single storefront. That storefront belongs to Valve, it’s called Steam, and despite plenty of challenges in the two decades since it launched, no one has yet come close...
Valve Bans Forced In-Game Ads From All Steam Titles
10.2.2025
If you, like most people on Earth, a frequent mobile gamer, you’ll be all-too aware of the bane of in-game ads. Because the freemium model proves by far the most successful way to release games on telephones, you pay by sitting through agonizing ads with fake countdown timers, ‘x’ buttons that...
Steam Adds A New Warning For Dead Early Access Games Like Unsung Story
5.2.2025
Have you ever come across an Early Access game on Steam, decided it looked pretty cool and downloaded it, only to realize it was kind of busted and never getting updated again? It’s long been a topic among PC players, and Valve now has a new tool to hopefully reduce such occurrences. A warning...
Path Of Exile 2 Is Playable On Steam Deck, But Not Ideal
3.2.2025
ARPGs like Path of Exile 2 and portable gaming devices like the Steam Deck go together like spaghetti and meatballs. Fighting huge mobs of enemies and grinding out rare loot is perfect for pick-up-and-play gaming, especially while you lay in bed listening to all those podcasts your friends keep...
Someone Ripped Apart A Steam Deck And Turned It Into A Super Small Console
27.1.2025
The Steam Deck is a very popular (and good!) handheld gaming device that lets you play many of your favorite PC games on the go. But what if it was a screenless console you had to plug into a TV to use? Well, someone ripped their own Steam Deck apart to make just that and called it a “Steam Brick.”...
19,000 Games Came To Steam In 2024 And 80 Percent Of Them Had Almost No Players
13.1.2025
Nearly 19,000 video games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a lot! In fact, it’s more than hit the platform in any other year. But most of those games, around 80 percent of them in fact, went mostly unplayed, according to publicly available data.Read more
Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds
8.1.2025
Valve’s handheld device, the Steam Deck, wasn’t the first portable gaming PC ever created, but it is by the far the most successful. And like Steam becoming the de facto way people play PC games in 2025, SteamOS will soon be the most popular way to play PC titles on the go, which is not great...
Half-Life 2 Gets Big 20th Anniversary Update And Is Free To Grab For A Limited Time
16.11.2024
Valve’s seminal shooterHalf-Life 2 is now two decades old and to celebrate, the company has released a new documentary alongside a massive update to the game itself.Read more
Valve Reveals Early Gameplay Of Canceled Half-Life 2 Episode 3 And Why It Never Got Finished
16.11.2024
In a new two-hour documentary from Valve, current and former members of the company talk openly about the creation of Half-Life 2 as well as finally spilling the beans on what happened to Episode 3, and even showing gameplay of early prototypes of the canceled game. Read more