Steam
MembersPayment Processors: Surveillance, Chokepoints, and Kill Switches
When payment monopolists become the bouncers, the guest list stops being your choice.
Steam Says Mastercard Pressure Drove Game Bans, Undermining “All Lawful Purchases” Claim
Financial middlemen quietly decide which games get to exist in your library.
Steam Purges Games Under Pressure from Visa and Mastercard’s Unseen Censorship
These gatekeepers of online speech don’t own platforms, they own the rails your money rides on.
Six Days in Fallujah vs the perpetually offended
A new petition aims to get the game canceled.
Steam to officially launch in China, bringing regulation controls and censorship
Valve was desperate to do business in China.
Valve releases alpha build of censored Steam client for the Chinese market
Corporations can’t resit the Chinese market, even if it means having to censor.
The ADL is coming for gamers
When organizations become increasingly irrelevant, they have to create new enemies in order to stay funded.
Steam threads criticizing Jill’s Resident Evil 3 outfit changes are locked, censored by mods
Is it not valid criticism?
Game devs: we didn’t grant “permission” for GeForce Now to let customers play games they already own
Disappointing but not surprising.
The Witcher 3 game is having a resurgence after Netflix series launch
People are rediscovering the game.