Valve is warning Steam users that an indie developer uploaded builds of its new survival sim game that contained malware.

Valve has banned forced in-game advertisements for any game listed on the Steam platform. This means that any game that locks gameplay behind commercials, awards items for clicking a link ...

In-game ads have now been officially banned from the popular gaming platform Steam, according to the new guidelines.

Valve has now made it abundantly clear that anything like this on its PC store means an instant ban. The Top Ten Most Played Games On Steam Deck: March 2023 Edition As spotted by GamingOnLinux ...

A free-to-play title called PirateFi was released with little fanfare on Steam earlier this month. But the only reason many players will ever hear about it is because the game has been pulled from the ...

Some of them are even interactive games in their own right—and some of them are malware. No such shenanigans on Steam, though, thanks to a recently-clarified Valve policy. Strictly speaking ...

Valve has seemingly introduced new rules that ban games that require users to watch paid ads (or rely on other such ad-based revenue models) from Steam. However, some sources report that these ...

Valve is warning users to check for malware or reset their PC PirateFi was taken off Steam just days after it launched Other ...

Valve has emphasised its rules around advertising, explicitly prohibiting games that force players to watch in-game ads. The newly-remphasised rules from Valve - first reported by Gaming on Linux ...

Valve has quietly ... rewards—in-game items, free playtime, and so on—for watching or engaging with an ad. Though dynamics like this are mostly seen in mobile games, not PC titles, a handful ...

Valve has published a dedicated page advising developers on what type of advertising is and isn't allowed on Steam. "Steam does not contain any paid advertising, nor are models supported in games ...

Valve is implementing new Steam platform rules detailing what developers can and can't do regarding in-game ads. In its Steamworks Documentation, Valve lays out what is and isn't supported for ...