Following a recent change in UK law, Steam now requires British gamers to confirm their age in order to buy mature/18-rated ...

Valve is taking a simple approach to the UK's Online Safety Act: You have a credit card, or you don't get in.

Back in July, Valve shocked gamers by suddenly removing numerous adult-only games from Steam to appease payment processors.

Valve and Mastercard have done a little back and forth over the weekend on the NSFW payment processor controversy. At this point, it’s hard to tell who’s telling the truth, and even who is to blame.

Valve have a Steam blog up, which explains the process for age verification and the need for a credit card in particular.

In a post on Twitter/X today, Mastercard said the following: Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media ...