TL;DR: Mastercard's payment rules, especially Rule 5.12.7, have indirectly led to the removal of adult games from Steam and Itch.io, as payment processors pressured platforms to comply to avoid losing ...

Shortly after several adult games were removed from Steam and itch.io, reportedly due to pressure from payment partners and credit card networks, Visa responded to the issue after being contacted by ...

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related ...

TL;DR: CD Projekt's GOG.com is giving away 13 adult-themed PC games for free to protest ongoing censorship by payment processors like Visa and Mastercard, sparking debate on consumer rights and ...

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

A PS3 exclusive game, an RPG from 2011, is returning with a new remaster that will take the PS3 game multi-platform. However, some gamers are protesting the release over what they view is censorship ...

UMass Amherst computer scientist turns to game theory and AI to study digital surveillance in China and learn how to circumvent the world’s most sophisticated surveillance networks AMHERST, Mass. – ...

GOG's FreedomToBuy campaign, which gives away 13 PC games for free, has been extended by about three hours, and fans now have until August 3 at around 10:00 PM CST to claim its promoted titles. GOG's ...

Resident Evil Requiem players in Japan are complaining of overt censorship of the horror game's goriest scenes.