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Yesterday, Valve made waves when it updated its Steamworks Documentation now to include a dedicated "Advertising on Steam" page, illuminating its anti-advertising-on-Steam stance— GamingOnLinux ...

Valve, the parent company of Steam, is further bearing down on the issue of forced advertising on its platform. It has previously been opposed to games using advertisements to lock gameplay until ...

TL;DR: Valve has updated Steam's guidelines to ban games that force users to engage with in-game advertising, opposing the ad-driven model common in mobile games. Valve has continued its push to ...

In-game advertisements have existed for as long as free-to-play mobile games. While this unfortunate practice relies heavily on the mobile gaming industry, it has made its way into PC games ...

As reported by PC Magazine, Valve has been notifying players who downloaded PirateFi about the takedown. In the screenshot reproduced below from SteamDB, Valve encourages PirateFi players to run a ...

Of course, advertising is a part of any publisher or developer's toolkit— it's just unacceptable as a core tenet of gameplay, as Valve has now made it extra clear by setting aside a dedicated ...