Valve has confirmed the launch of chat filtering on Steam, which lets players set preferences in terms of what language they want to see when they talk with other users on the platform. While the tool ...

Microsoft is introducing new text filtering options on Xbox One consoles, giving players more control over what kinds of messages they receive. The company says this is both to improve parental ...

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 ...

Gaming Industry The effort to canonize a Steam tag for the world's 'survivorslikes' and 'bullet heavens' intensifies with a public poll and celebratory sale aiming to finally settle on a name for the ...

Gaming platforms have started to realize that harm doesn't simply come from seeing or having access to age-inappropriate games, it can also come from seeing inappropriate or hurtful messages. Gamers, ...

Valve has announced that users now have access to a beta feature that enables them to filter unwanted words from chat, preventing conversations from being derailed. The feature is available now ...

Moderating language is difficult for any platform. But Valve Software is trying to take on this challenge with a new Steam feature called Chat Filtering. This enables Steam members to opt into an ...

Sometimes, journalism means asking your friends to curse you out. (Thomas Wilde Photo) You may have missed it, as this has been an unusually crazy news cycle even for this year, but Valve announced on ...

Ubisoft has been expanding the game’s features that prevent toxicity with continued updates and new systems like a feature that automatically banned people for using inappropriate language. According ...

Valve is working on a text and chat filtering feature for Steam that will allow players to control what comes to their attention when playing popular online multiplayer games. Steam Text & Chat ...