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Steam is testing a new chat filter system that’ll allow users to customize their experience by blocking certain words or phrases they don’t want to see. A chat filtering service is already in place on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steam now allows users to filter out adult content and mature content among other updates detailed in an announcement from Valve ...

Want to avoid adult or otherwise mature content on Steam? Now you can. Steam developer Valve today outlined two new filter modes for the platform: an Adult Only filter for games with "explicit or ...

All I ever seem to see on the “New and Trending” list in Valve’s Steam service are games I know I’ll never play—including those weird sexy games, broken-as-hell Early Access games, and other oddities.

Steam's latest Steam Labs experiment is a platform-wide chat filter that obscures profanities and slurs across both Steam chat itself as well as certain games. In a Steam Labs blog post, Valve ...

That Steam user review that lists thousands of hours played and ultimately says "it's okay" was funny the first time, but by now that particular gag has worn pretty thin. Luckily, Steam has just ...

Steam now lets you make a custom list of words you want filtered from your chat experience, Steam owner Valve has announced. The Steam Text & Chat Filtering feature already removes commonly used ...

Valve has added a new filter to Steam which will allow users to filter games with explicit sexual content. A new update to Steam now provides users a way to filter out games which contain "explicit ...

Michael has been writing about entertainment since 2016, but he's been a gamer since playing Pac-Man in the arcade, Kings Quest 3 on the PC, and the Sega Master System he got from his late father. In ...