Age of Rust was banned on Steam because it was a blockchain game.
Age of Rust was banned on Steam because it was a blockchain game.
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Overcoming the resistance to blockchain games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

Valve stirred the hornet’s nest around blockchain games when it announced a ban on games with nonfungible tokens (NFTs). We discussed the controversy around the new tech and business models of blockchain games in the opening session at our GamesBeat Summit Next event.

Our discussion included Chris LoVerme, CEO of SpacePirate Games, and Witek Radomski, chief technology officer at Enjin, one of the first companies that built an NFT platform. (We invited Valve to participate but got no answer.) Radomski said the company’s goal is to make blockchain easy to use and accessible for game developers and players. Enjin’s Efinity is a cross-chain network built for NFTs, and it has a $100 million fund to support metaverse NFT projects for Efinity on the Polkadot blockchain.

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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.