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. In an open letter addressed to ...

On Thursday, indie gaming platform Itch.io began re-indexing some of the adult content it had delisted last month amid pressure from conservative groups and payment processors over its hosting of NSFW ...

Indie game clearinghouse itch.io is the latest online gaming storefront to take action to remove or limit the availability of some adult content, bowing to pressure from payment processors spurred by ...

Every so often, Leaf Corcoran reminds himself that he’s not building another Steam. More importantly, Corcoran and his crew go out of their way satisfy indie developers’ whims, even accommodating ...

The games platform will let developers host adult content as long as it is free and aligns with an upcoming 'content warnings' system for NSFW content. Indie gaming platform itch.io is re-indexing ...

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 ...

After delisting adult content last week, itch.io updates its guidelines to allow NSFW titles—if developers make it through a strict set of filters. Indie game publishing platform itch.io has updated ...

Gabriel has been playing games since he was a kid. Loves most RPG games, platformers, and innovative indie games, and can talk for hours about how the first Fallout is the greatest game ever. He ...

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PC Gaming Facing adult game crackdown, Itch says it had fewer options "compared to a company like Steam" and is now "actively reaching out to other payment processors," not acting on the demands of an ...