G2A has been a controversial marketplace for the past several years. Some gamers love it because it offers games at affordable prices. Indie devs hate it because fraudulent keys and chargebacks force ...

There’s a few reasons you might have heard of G2A, one of the Internet’s most popular spots to sell an extra Steam key. One, it’s been the subject of intense criticism for not doing enough about fraud ...

In context: To say G2A is a controversial figure in the PC gaming industry would be a dramatic understatement. The "gray" marketplace has made headlines time and time again for general misbehavior and ...

Indie developers are taking a stand against grey market website G2A for its reselling of illegally acquired game keys. Over the years, stories of the popular key reselling website G2A have surfaced as ...

Update March 2, 2017: TinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik was hosting a GDC panel last night, along with Digital River's Scott Davis and Scott Williams, co-Founder of Panopticon Laboratories Matthew Cook, ...

On Monday, game developer Charlie Cleveland, who founded Subnautica and Natural Selection publisher Unknown Worlds, told sketchy game reseller G2A that they owe him a fat chunk of money—$300,000 to be ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In July 2019, online games retailer G2A extended an offer to devs to open up its records to an independent auditor, and to reimburse the developers 10 ...

Despite promises it was out of the business of reselling game activation keys, G2A is back in it, and it is also competing directly with key resellers in their own marketplace, on terms that penalize ...

Charlie Hall is Polygon’s tabletop editor. In 12-plus years as a journalist & photographer, he has covered simulation, strategy, and spacefaring games, as well as public policy. The G2A Marketplace ...

Update 2: Tinybuild has matched G2A's "three day ultimatum" with one of its very own: "Provide a solution for developers and publishers to benefit from the marketplace." In another, possibly final, ...

The grey market of game key reselling rears its head again today as TinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik writes a frank blogpost about his experience with massively popular key store G2A and the $450,000 ...

In case anyone missed it, G2A just did a bogus AMA to attempt to polish their image. A user demonstrated that you can easily sell fraudulent keys during the AMA. G2A then promptly banned the user ...