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

If you’ve spent any time exploring Steam’s sprawling library of games (and let’s be real, who hasn’t?), you might have noticed something peculiar recently.

Valve has denied Mastercard’s statement about having no involvement in the removal of certain adult games from Steam. According to Valve, Mastercard actually applied pressure to have these games… ...

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

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

Valve claims Mastercard cited a rule to force them to change NSFW game rules on Steam, disputing Mastercard's attempt to deflect blame.

A mass purge of sexually explicit games exposes the little-known yet all-encompassing system of ‘financial censorship’ practiced by payment providers such as Visa and Mastercard, reports Io Dodds ...