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Steam’s Latest Crackdown On Sex Games Highlights An Alarming New Trend

Steam removed a wave of adult games from its storefront, and the results could be much darker than you think.

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Valve billionaire Gabe Newell says businesses should "listen to your customers and focus on them," putting employees, partners, and customers before capital

The lead behind Steam gives potential entrepreneurs advice

GamesRadar

Valve icon Gabe Newell says "AI is going to be a cheat code" and doubles down on new tech: "Figure out how to use AI to do anything better" across "pretty much every single business"

"That all seems super obvious," says the Steam billionaire

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Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there

Everyone hated that.

PC Gamer

Sending a Steam sticker 'burned through a month of mobile data in five minutes' complains unhappy gamer

A Steam Chat user who “burned through a month of mobile data in 5 minutes” blames Valve's animated stickers.

Tom’s Hardware

Valve boss and superyacht enthusiast Gabe Newell says pitching VCs is a "deeply distracted" way to make money: "If you're creating value for people, the capital will come your way"

"The focus should always be on your customers, and on your partners, and on your employees"

GamesRadar

Steam gaming finally comes to RISC-V — AAA titles like The Witcher 3 and Crysis now playable thanks to revamped emulation tool

Linux developers have managed to get Steam games running on RISC-V-powered platforms using a refined x86 emulator.

Tom’s Hardware

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The brainbox behind Valve's Steam Labs says the number of Steam releases featuring GenAI in 2025 is 1 in 5, with 7% of all games on there now incorporating it: 'We’ve octupled last year’s figure'

But there's still "a vocal anti-AI sentiment among artists and gamers who simply won’t buy games with this stuff in."

PC Gamer

Valve confirms pressure from banks and card companies is to blame for the storefront axing adult Steam games: "Loss of payment methods would prevent customers from being able to purchase other titles"

The company is removing "certain" titles only

GamesRadar

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam

It's not a great precedent, that's for sure.

PC Gamer

This Redditor says it wasn't even that difficult to get a sub-$100 broken Steam Deck working again with parts from an old Nintendo DS Lite: 'not that hard at all'

And now it's fit with Nintendo DS Lite shoulder buttons, amongst other Frankenstein fixes.

PC Gamer

Multi-billionaire Gabe Newell says the whole startup culture of pitching VCs makes no business sense: 'A great way of destroying money and wasting peoples' time'

"The key is to ignore all the distractions."

PC Gamer

Valve boss Gabe Newell shares his "daily routine," which is shockingly like his Steam God persona: "I get up, I work, I go scuba diving, work some more" then "go on a second scuba dive or I go to the gym"

"I work seven days a week"

GamesRadar

Valve's Gabe Newell predicts AI will lead to a "funny situation" where "people who don't know how to program" could be "more effective" than people "who've been programming for a decade"

From his Steam throne, Valve billionaire says businesses should just "listen to your customers and focus on them"

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Steam takes down tons of porn games, cracks down on "certain kinds of adult-only content" — here's why, and its new policy (UPDATE: Valve responds)

Porn games have been on Steam for years now, but many just got taken down from the platform after a recent policy change. Here's Valve's new rule.

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell's daily routine is 'get up, work, go scuba diving,' says he's been 'retired for a long time' but works 7 days a week: 'The things I get to do every day are super-awesome'

"I'm working from my bedroom as you can tell."

GamesRadar

I'm too broke to buy Donkey Kong Bananza, so if you're sharing my FOMO here are the best Steam Deck games I'm playing instead

From Baldur's Gate 3 to Stardew Valley, these are the 10 best Steam Deck games to play right now

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CS2 skin collectors can finally breathe a sigh of relief thanks to new Steam feature

Skins economy is finally under protection.

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"If I had stayed with Valve, I would have been able to retire by now": OG Counter-Strike co-creator 'Gooseman' "kind of regrets" leaving Valve, says he "made some poor business decisions" but grew as a dev

"By the time Valve contacted us, that's when we thought this could go down in history"

PC Gamer

Steam will let you reverse your last 7 days of CS2 (and soon other) trades if you accidentally swap your $10,000 AK-47 for some magic beans

I hope you kept the receipt.

PC Gamer

Steam's got a new rule that puts the kibosh on 'certain kinds of adult only content' that make Visa and Mastercard sad

The new rule seemingly coincided with a large number of adult games being delisted from the platform.

Windows Central

Windows 7 running natively on a Steam Deck is an affront to science — this tinkerer has Microsoft's OS booting in portrait mode

It boots, but there's something wrong with it. Then again, if "Bob Pony" devotes any more time to this unusual project, that could all change.

GamesRadar

ROG Xbox Ally price leaks seemingly just surfaced online, and I'm pretty worried for the Asus handheld

Asus ROG Xbox Ally price leaks briefly popped up via a Google search, and the supposed MSRP could hamper the handheld in its fight against the Steam Deck.

Destructoid

How to fix Dead by Daylight Error Code 8012

Here's how you can resolve the pesky 8012 Error Code in DBD.

PC Gamer

Yep, Steam is down (update: we're so back)

Steam briefly died and came back alive.

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