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Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship
Late in the evening on July 23, developers with games tagged as NSFW on Itch.io, a digital marketplace, began to notice something strange. Their work—whether it was a game about navigating disordered eating as a teenager, or about dick pics—no longer appeared in search results. “No notification or anything,” says former NYU Game Center educator and developer Robert Yang, whose …
Read More »Once a relative haven for adult games, itch.io begins removing explicit titles
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 …
Read More »Itch.io deindexing adult content to appease payment providers
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 …
Read More »Itch.io ‘deindexes’ all NSFW games, blames same anti-porn group that campaigned against Steam
Itch.io, the digital distribution platform known for its focus on independent game developers and other artists, has “deindexed” all NSFW content following discussions with payment processors contacted by the same Australian pressure group that recently targeted Steam. Hints that something was afoot on the platform first surfaced on social media earlier today, as itch.io creators began reporting their …
Read More »Itch.io follows Steam in removing adult games
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 …
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