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Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it’s a slippery slope  Hacker News Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam  PC Gamer Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis  Polygon Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship  WIRED Credit Card Companies Are Hurting …

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 …