Jump scares are officially in their flop era. We're diving into how a new wave of horror games, like the mind-bending 'Luto', are ditching cheap thrills for smart, psychological terror that gets deep inside your head and stays there.
In mid-July 2025, Steam and Itch.io cracked down on NSFW games, but this was no self-motivated policy change. We break down how an anti-pornography group forced their hand by pressuring payment processors, and what this financial deplatforming means for indie developers, creative freedom...
Valve updated its Steam guidelines, giving payment processors like Visa and Mastercard the power to delist games with "certain kinds of adult-only content." We break down what this new era of "financial censorship" means for games and why everyone is freaking out.