Steam now officially has an age restriction

Valve recently updated Steam’s Subscriber Agreement to include an official age restriction for its service.

According to the new agreement, no one under the age of 13 can become a subscriber of Valve’s service.

Furthermore, “Valve will not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13”.

Obviously a number of games on Steam’s service will continue to be blocked by an age-gate in order to verify that you are old enough to access mature content.

While the age restriction has been floating around for a while, this marks the first time it has featured so prominently in the Subscriber Agreement, barring anyone under 13 from subscribing to the service.

This follows the recent gambling controversy surrounding a number of games on Steam.