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"We've learned that Steam's reviews are extremely strict with regards to characters that might be perceived as underage"
Read More »Steam delists visual novel which features rape and torture
DayZ finally gets rated in Australia
References to drugs are thought to have been scrubbed from the game
Read More »Bohemia will amend DayZ’s drug references to get past Australian ban
Studio didn't "want to separate Australian players from the rest of the world"
Read More »Jordan bans PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite might be next
Regulatory commission says ban is in the national interest
Read More »Nepal government requested to justify PUBG ban as Supreme Court temporarily stays ban order
Request may contravene the Constitution of Nepal
Read More »Facebook blocks Gris advertisement for containing a ‘sexually suggestive’ statue
"This is stupid"
Read More »Steam is banning games featuring sex and characters that look underage
"This is a very large userbase to lose out on"
Read More »Rocket League reaches 34m players worldwide
Rocket League just debuted a new banning system to make sure it’s a harassment-free place,” creator Psyonix just revealed. This follows the developer’s announcement that Rocket League has just reached an impressive 34m players worldwide. Announced by Rocket League’s community manager Devin Connors in a blog post, the new ban …
Read More »EA blocks Origin in Myanmar but promises to try and fix the issue
Over the weekend a Reddit user kicked up a fuss when they discovered they couldn’t access Origin games in Myanmar, but EA has said it plans to reverse this country ban. The Reddit thread explained that when anyone located in Myanmar tried to access EA’s PC distribution service they were …
Read More »From Software is investigating alleged unfair Dark Souls 3 bans
A number of players claim to have been wrongly banned from the online component of Dark Souls 3. From Software has since the days of the original Dark Souls struggled with policing the series’ community. Historically players who are deemed to have cheated in any way are pooled off into …
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