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What charity should the Steam Sentinels support for 2025? - StrawPoll What is your opinion? Vote now: Cancer Research - Cancer prevention, treatment, and research, Alzheimer's Society - Support and research for people affected by dementia, Crohn’s & Co

The @steamsentinels.bsky.social Charity Livestream 2025 is coming!

YOU choose which charity we’ll support!

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Voting closes Nov 9th!

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YouTube video by Mellow Online1 Authorised Chaos | Steam Sentinels Podcast (Ep.5)

Authorised Chaos | @steamsentinels.bsky.social Podcast (Ep 5)

This week, we’re talking fake store pages, broken games, and @valvesoftware.com's vanishing oversight.

From the 'Scarface' (2006) fiasco to free games being rendered unplayable.

#Steam #Gaming #Podcast

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Publisher Pre-emptively Publishes an Unauthorised ‘Scarface: The World is Yours’ Store Page Scarface: The World is Yours - a classic licensed game which is held in high regard was going to be unauthorisedly released onto Steam. There's been a lot of buzz over the last couple of days, at leas...

A 'Scarface: The World is Yours'' @steampowered.com page briefly went live this week - but the publisher has since admitted they didn’t have the rights to release it.

We’ve broken down what happened, how it slipped through, and why storefront checks matter.

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YouTube video by Mellow Online1 Creativity Locked | Steam Sentinels Podcast (Ep.4)

Creativity Locked | @steamsentinels.bsky.social Podcast (Ep. 4)

This week, Mellow, Ratchet, and @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social are back with a mix of nostalgia and critique as we look at how creativity and control collide in modern gaming.

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My take on Valve's Changes (Since the Start of Steam Direct) Hey folks! SirViolentDeath here with another intermittent article while our fearless leader Mellow is out on a tea run. Back in 2019, I wrote a retrospective on the changes Valve had made back in 2017...

New @steamsentinels.bsky.social article!

"My take on Valve’s Changes (Since the Start of @steampowered.com Direct)” by @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social.

From Greenlight to trading cards to key limits - what actually changed, and who paid the price?

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#Steam

YouTube video by Mellow Online1 The Price of Play | Steam Sentinels Podcast (Ep.3)

Steam Sentinels Podcast - Episode 3: “The Price of Play”

We’re back to talk #PolishOurPrices, @xbox.com Game Pass price hikes, and transparency in AI-driven games.

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#PolishOurPrices Recently there's been a lot of discussion ongoing regarding the #PolishOurPrices movement, and I wanted to take an opportunity now to talk to you all about what is going on with it, why it's important...

Our latest @steamsentinels.bsky.social article is now live!

#PolishOurPrices

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YouTube video by Mellow Online1 Trust on Trial | Steam Sentinels Podcast (Ep. 1)

Check out our first @steamsentinels.bsky.social podcast, Trust on Trial where the boys discuss @steampowered.com's most recent controversies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUmj...

New article on @steamsentinels.bsky.social!

This is a biggy - we donned our investigative journalism hats again and we covered what is, in my opinion, the biggest Steam marketplace scam I've come across in my time on the platform..

Review Bombing Part 1 Hi folks, SirViolentDeath here with an interm article while our fearless leader Mellow_Online1 goes on holiday (this past week) to sample tea or some shit. This week's article will be about review bom...

New article on @steamsentinels.bsky.social!

A guest piece this week from @sirviolentdeath.bsky.social - Part one in a planned series of articles discussing Review Bombing on Steam!

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Rip-Off Dark and Darker Game Bribes Gamers with Rewards for Positive Reviews Dark and Darker Knockoff Bribes Players for Positive Reviews by Onepeg There's a saying that if you let something go unchecked for so long, it continues to fester and ends up becoming an overly normal...

New article on @steamsentinels.bsky.social!

Rip-Off 'Dark and Darker' Game Bribes Gamers with Rewards for Positive Reviews

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The White House Responds to Censorship on Steam – How Will This Impact You? Accompanying video from OhNoItsAlexx Background: Steam, Visa, and Mastercard’s New Content Rules A few days ago, we published ‘ Steam, Visa, and Financial Content Restrictions (Revised Version That's ...

White House signs new order banning “politicized debanking.”

Could it impact Visa & Mastercard's role in @steampowered.com/@itch.io adult content restrictions?
Full breakdown here: steamcommunity.com/groups/Senti...

#Steam #Itchio #GamingNews #Censorship

Steam, Visa, and Financial Content Restrictions (Revised Version That's Good for Steam) NOTE: Please note that the article below is a revised version, as our original article was removed due to Steam's content filter not really liking it, so a lot of phrases and words used in the origina...

FINAL (I hope) update

A sanitised watered-down version of the original article is now up on @steamsentinels.bsky.social!

@steampowered.com, Visa, and Financial Content Restrictions (Revised Version That's Good for Steam)

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Earlier today we posted a new article on the @steamsentinels.bsky.social group. The article discussed visa and @steampowered.com censorship issues. The article... got censored. Here's an archived copy of it. You be the judge if it should have been censored. archive.is/WeZ4r

We're unfortunately experiencing problems with users accessing our article.

We're working with our team to troubleshoot the problem and have wrote to @steampowered.com about users not being able to view the article.

Please bear with us as we try and fix the issue.

Steam Community :: Group :: Sentinels of the Store The Sentinels of the Store is a group founded on the core values of transparency, fairness, and consumer protection. Our journey began when we saw the urgent need to address the growing concerns withi...

New article is live on @steamsentinels.bsky.social!

@steampowered.com and @itchio.bsky.social are censoring adult games - because Visa and Mastercard don't like them.

We break down what’s happening and why creators are fighting back.

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#LetUsCreate #IndieDev

Sentinels article dropping tomorrow!

Mellow_Online1 on X: "Alright, next topic for @SteamSentinels, go!" / X Alright, next topic for @SteamSentinels, go!

New poll over on X.

Decide the next topic for @steamsentinels.bsky.social

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Well done to @occularmalice.bsky.social for his find and for making an appropriate report to ConcernedApe regarding the asset theft.

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship Gamers are sending mass emails and phone calls to major payment processors in protest over Steam and Itchio pulling adult games from their storefronts

Adult games - some not even explicit - are being delisted from @steampowered.com & @itchio.bsky.social under pressure from Visa & Mastercard.

This sets a dangerous precedent where payment processors dictate what games can exist.

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#SteamSentinels #StopCensorship

🚨MALWARE ALERT ON @steampowered.com🚨

'Chemia' was found with infostealer malware.

This isn’t the first time this has happened.

Steam must do better.

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#Steam #Malware #Infostealer #SentinelsOfTheStore

We're so close!

I've posted a giveaway for @steamsentinels.bsky.social members on Steam Gifts.

Just a little thank you for the continued support.

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Regular @steamsentinels.bsky.social activity will be resuming from w/c July 28th.

YouTube video by Bellular News A Billion Dollar Company Just RIGGED Steam Reviews

A billion-dollar publisher just broke @steampowered.com's review and AI rules, and nothing happened.

Smaller devs face takedowns for far less. If Valve won’t enforce its policies fairly, the system is broken.

@bellular.bsky.social's report: youtu.be/NT82gFzkRvg
#Steam #GameDev

I've had messages about the #StopKillingGames movement, and I personally do support it.

I encourage anyone in the EU to sign the petition and those outside to share it!

A discussion on game lifespans and ownership is something that at the bare minimum needs a revisit.

www.stopkillinggames.com

YouTube video by News Cartridge News Cartridge June 10th, 2025 Borderlands 2 Review Bombed

I'm now a gaming news show producer!

@steamsentinels.bsky.social have worked with Hannah to help reboot 'News Cartridge' which ceased frequent episode production in December 2018.

Go check the latest episode out, feedback would be greatly appreciated!

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Steam Community :: WolfRAM_DX :: Review for Galactic Vanguard DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!! TopGame decompiled the game G WARRIOR (authored by LKK), changed some graphics, added soundtracks from other licensed games (for example, the first leve...

Just a signal booster: DO NOT BUY 'GALACTIC VANGUARD' ON @steampowered.com

The game is a decompiled version of another game, 'G-Warrior.'

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My Final Statement on the Alleged Steam Data Leak Over the past few days, there has been significant discourse surrounding reports I put out of an alleged Steam data breach involving over 89 million records, and I want to take this opportunity to off...

Please find a statement below from Steam Sentinels owner
@mellowonline1.bsky.social about the alleged Steam data leak.

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🛡️ At Sentinels of the Store, we're not here to police what you play — we're here to protect the space we all share.

🎮 Fairness for devs.
🔍 Transparency for players.
📢 Accountability where it counts.

#Steam #GamingEthics #ConsumerProtection