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A Steam developer using the name ‘Very Positive’ has had their account banned and their game delisted from the platform, with Steam accusing them of manipulaing reviews.

As reported by Vice, the crafty user had done this due to the proximity of the ‘Developer’ text to the ‘Recent Reviews’ text when looking at a game on Steam.

“I noticed that the publisher/developer name is located really close to the reviews and has the same color, and I decided to use it for my purposes,” the anonymous developer of Emoji Evolution told Vice. Having ‘Very Positive’ reviews on your game will no doubt influence whether users will click on it or consider purchasing it, and for the less eagle-eyed, it could quite easily trick people into thinking that the game was well-received, when in actuality, the reception was ‘Mixed’.

Well, this is one way to trick people into thinking your game has positive reviews on Steam…! pic.twitter.com/jnzGC9qfEu

— Patrick Klepek (@patrickklepek) February 10, 2021

The developer told Vice that they didn’t think it would be an issue with Steam, but Very Positive has now been banned from Steam, with Emoji Evolution delisted.

“Valve has banned my developer account due to the ‘review manipulations”. Absolutely disagree with this accusation.’ wrote the developer on Twitter (below). They followed up with “I will contact the support to clarify Steam position on Very Positive Developer” – so perhaps the story isn’t yet over.

I will contact the support to clarify Steam position on Very Positive Developer. Will keep you posted!

— Very Positive Developer (@verypositivedev) February 13, 2021

In the wake of the ban, the Very Positive Developer has said on Twitter that they are only guilty of making a “really bad game.” “If making awful games is not allowed on Steam, why haven’t they already suspended the CDPR account?,” they added, in a jab at the Cyberpunk 2077 developer. They would later go on to apologize on Wednesday, tweeting “I apologize to any customer that was misled by my trick. Bless Steam refund system.”

VPD has now uploaded Emoji Evolution to Itch.Io, and says that it will be “free until Steam restores my developer account (forever, lol).” In other Steam news, the platform keeps breaking its own concurrent player’s record, recording over 26 million people logged in at once in early February.

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Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Episode 7 of WandaVision is here and Westview is now in the 2010s, when sitcoms began to really lean into the “talking head” segments and mockumentary style directing with shows like Modern Family and The Office. So, naturally, we get a whole lot of that going on here–even though some of Westview’s residents seem a bit less enthusiastic than others about the whole thing.

Meanwhile, Wanda’s powers are on the fritz as she slowly loses control over the fabric of Westview’s reality, causing glitches in the proverbial matrix that make for all sorts of anxiety. The twins are noticing something is up and looking for answers that Wanda either doesn’t have or just doesn’t want to give and Vision is still on a crusade to get out of the town, despite having no memory of his life before arriving in Westview at all.

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WandaVision Episode 7, ‘Breaking the Fourth Wall’, includes the series’ first mid-credits scene – so make sure you hang around once the names start popping up.

Unlike most Marvel Cinematic Universe fare, WandaVision’s first 6 episodes haven’t included extra scenes tucked in between the credit sequences (although some have guessed that the credit sequences themselves might hold clues). This week was a little different.

If you want to know what was in it, scroll down.

Full spoilers follow for Episode 7 of WandaVision!

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Breaking Through the Fourth Wall, which riffed off of mockumentary sitcoms like Modern Family and The Office, ends by confirming the long-held theory that Kathryn Hahn’s Agnes is in fact Agatha Harkness, a witch originating from the Marvel comics. In a closing theme song, we’re shown how Agatha has seemingly been responsible for much of the strangeness surrounding Wanda and her family, including seemingly creating or summoning Evan Peters’ Pietro Maximoff.

The mid-credits scene seems to confirm Pietro’s connection to Agnes, as the newly powered-up Monica Rambeau explores Agnes/Agatha’s house, discovers a mysterious, vine covered basement entrance – and is surprised by Pietro (who’s been absent for the episode) before she can enter.

Exactly what all this means isn’t entirely clear yet – but what is clear is that we should probably be sitting through WandaVision’s credit sequences every week from now on.

With WandaVision fast coming to an end, you might be wondering what’s to come – well there’s the ‘good old-fashioned fun’ of The Falcon and Winter Soldier beginning on March 19, and there’s also a making-of documentary on WandaVision, Assembled coming on March 12.

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