by Nicholas Armstrong | Jun 8, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Valve has been fairly quiet about the controversies surrounding the games on their storefront. In just the past two weeks, they have issued warnings to several publishers of pornographic games as well as removed a game where you play as a mass shooter. Despite all the...
by Elizabeth Freeman | Jun 1, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Only last week, the Steam community became aware of the game Active Shooter. Set to release in June, the game would have allowed players to control a swat team member, an active shooter in a school, or a fleeing civilian. The discovery of the game quickly prompted a...
by Nicholas Armstrong | May 22, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Three days ago, several developers of adult games received notices from Steam that they were in violation of Steam policies on adult content. Each developer was given an ultimatum – remove the offending content and update the game or be removed from Steam. Popular...
by Nicholas Armstrong | May 11, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Valve doesn’t take kindly to people violating their rules, and they don’t often budge on a punishment. That means for the indie developer Acram Digital, it’s probably curtains on ever publishing on Steam again. Acram Digital focused on bringing board games to digital...
by Jordan Love | Apr 20, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
It’s been four years since this Valve-Australia saga started, but the case is finally over, once and for all. Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission filed suit against Valve back in 2014 for the company’s lack of an explicit return policy. The proceedings...
by Jordan Love | Apr 13, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
The Fast Travel weekly gaming recap is your resource for staying caught up on everything going on in the gaming industry. We start by highlighting a few of the week’s biggest news pieces. Then it’s on to bit of esports news. Followed by a helping of “The Best Thing on...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Apr 12, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
SteamSpy has always been a valuable resource for discovering how well a title is performing across the Steam landscape. It can show things like what games are trending (showing upticks in purchases or gameplay time), what the top played game is by time, or even stats...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 25, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
As far as true sandbox games go, Rust just might be the best ever made. Featuring a plethora of survival tools, clothing, and weapons, the game is like PUBG meets Minecraft, but with more naked people screaming. The biggest problem with Rust, though, is despite its...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 9, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
The concurrent users for Steam – meaning those logged in and active – has recently reached 18.5 million users and shows few signs of slowing down. This is by far the largest amount of concurrent users ever and represents what many see as a continuing trend of the...
by Nicholas Armstrong | Jan 4, 2018 | News, News Section, Videogames
Over the weekend, some Team Fortress 2 communities were outraged to hear that Steam’s VAC system was banning any accounts with the word ‘catbot’ found in their user name or profile. This turned out to be false as a Valve employee took to Reddit to clarify that the...
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