10-06-2026 19:03 via mashable.com

Physical Steam Gift Cards discontinued. Scammers are to blame.

A matter of weeks after Steam Deck devices got a massive price increase, Valve is taking another difficult measure that will make things slightly less convenient for players.The owner of the biggest digital storefront for PC games announced this week (via SteamDB) that it will no longer manufacture or sell physical Steam gift cards at retail stores. The reason, of course, is that scammers use these cards for all sorts of malicious behaviors, and Valve has admitted that it can't come up with a su
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