Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. In February this year, Turkiye's Family and Social Services Ministry announced draft legislation to impose various restrictions and overweening oversight on Steam, Epic, and other gaming platforms. The country's parliament has now approved the bill, with some minor changes, which will mean tough times ahead for such platforms, and newly limited access for Turkish players. The bill is part of a wider legislative push which, the government claims, is about protecting children by restricting access to things like social media. Some of the requirements of the new legislation are pretty boilerplate, such as clearly displaying age ratings and offering "clear [and] easy-to-use" parental tools, but the platform-holders will surely breathe a sigh of relief that the regulator will not have the authority to ban them (though it can throttle traffic after certain violations). Any gaming platform that has more than 100,000 daily users in Turkiye must now appoint a local representative (though they don't have to open an office). This rep's contact info must be easily accessible on the platform itself, declared to the authorities, and they have to respond to government requests within a strict timeframe. If the platforms breach the new rules, first up is a warning and one month to correct the violation. If they fail to fix the issue to the authorities' satisfaction within that month, then it's a 10 million Turkish lira fine ($223,000), and after another month of non-compliance the fine trebles to 30 million Turkish lira ($668,000). Should the fines not have the desired effect, this is when the regulator would begin limiting access speeds to the platform in question. But next to the social media companies, gaming platforms arguably go