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29 blockchain game studios and groups blast Valve for NFT games ban

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

A coalition of blockchain groups and game companies blasted Valve today for its ban on games with nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

Last Friday, Valve’s Steam digital distribution service told Age of Rust developer SpacePirate Games that it would not allow NFT games on its platform because of concerns around the “real world value” of NFT items.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.