PS5 shooter goes from 5 players to bestseller after devs defend game(polygon.com)

70 points by driftsumi-e 1 year ago | 34 comments

CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it(polygon.com)

163 points by sxp 2 years ago | 72 comments

Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall(polygon.com)

434 points by perihelions 1 year ago | 521 comments

Polygon article reporting that Counter-Strike's in-game skin economy has lost nearly $2 billion in value.

Steam Censorship of Adult Games Shows How Payment Processors Wield Immense Power(ign.com)

33 points by diggan 1 year ago | 1 comments

Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies(web.archive.org)

26 points by davikr 1 year ago | 2 comments

Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors(kotaku.com)

285 points by stalfosknight 5 months ago | 210 comments

Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees(classaction.org)

530 points by DeepLogin 19 days ago | 383 comments

ClassAction.org news article on a new lawsuit (The Pizza Standard LLC v. Visa Inc.) accusing Visa, Mastercard and major banks of anticompetitive merchant card fees.

Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down(pcgamer.com)

491 points by croes 1 year ago | 479 comments

PC Gamer article on Mastercard denying blame for NSFW game removals while Valve says payment processors cited a Mastercard brand-damage rule.

Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach(theverge.com)

698 points by PaulKeeble 1 year ago | 356 comments

The Verge news article reporting Discord's statement that about 70,000 users may have had government ID photos leaked via a breached customer service provider.

Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years(krebsonsecurity.com)

925 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 228 comments

KrebsOnSecurity article on a MasterCard DNS server misconfiguration, a typo'd nameserver domain that went unnoticed for nearly five years until a researcher registered it.

Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data(eff.org)

533 points by gslin 3 years ago | 206 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Hayley Tsukayama arguing that Mastercard should stop selling cardholders' transaction data.

Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun(europeanbusinessmagazine.com)

1031 points by NewCzech 8 months ago | 868 comments

European Business Magazine article on Europe's efforts to reduce reliance on Visa and Mastercard for its roughly $24 trillion in payments.