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Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has “deindexed” adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them from its browse and search pages. The move, the company said, was in response to a campaign by Collective Shout (an advocacy group that has previously criticized video games, rap music, and lingerie commercials) targeting both Itch.io and Steam for selling “No …

Just a little over a week after Steam updated its guidelines to prohibit content that “may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks,” specifically adult-only content, and days after itch.io shared that it, too, had removed games that would put it in direct conflict with its payment processors, gamers around the world …

Some video game marketplaces scrapping adult content — here’s why  NewsNation Credit Card Companies Are Hurting the Future of Video Games  404 Media Mastercard and Visa Under Fire As Petition For Payment Giants To ‘Not Police’ Legal Content Blows Up  International Business Times UK Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis  Polygon Controversial Opinion, But Faceless Payment Processors Probably Shouldn’t …

A Lafayette adult died of West Nile virus in what officials say is the first such death in Colorado this year. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Boulder County Public Health confirmed the death and its cause. The press release did not specify when the person died. CDPHE has confirmed nine human cases of West Nile in …

The brief message has replaced many adult games previously available on itch.io. The brief message has replaced many adult games previously available on itch.io. Credit: Itch.io Linked takedown notices on some of those pages outline the specific types of content that are being targeted in itch.io’s new crackdown: We don’t allow hosting content that includes sexualized images or videos of …

Indie-focused video game marketplace Itch.io has deindexed all adult content from its browse and search pages at the behest of payment processors. The company shared the news in a blog post and said it has become a target of the Collective Shout campaign, which has accused payment companies including Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal of “profiting from rape, incest [and] child …

The indie-focused open gaming marketplace Itch.io has abruptly deindexed adult content from its browse and search pages, warning that some games will be permanently removed from the platform. In a blog post on Thursday, Itch.io creator Leaf Corcoran said that the update was due to concerns that the website’s payment processors had “about the nature of certain content” hosted on …

Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games  Hacker News Patch Notes #14: Steam wages war on porn, Krafton accused of going nuclear, and King reportedly swaps humans for AI tools  Game Developer Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed  GamingOnLinux Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it …

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Valve is tightening its guidelines around ‘adult only’ content to satisfy rules set by Steam’s payment processing partners, with dozens of sexually explicit games removed from the platform throughout the week. As spotted by GameSpark and shared by Automaton, SteamDB logs show a flurry of activity behind the scenes as Steam updated its ‘Rules and Guidelines’ policy, making it clear …