There’s been a major backlash in response to the removal of legal NSFW video games at Steam and itch.io, with the game sites saying it was due to pressure from payment processors. Mastercard has since responded to the accusations that it was part of the …Read more »
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) describes itself as “the world’s largest nonprofit membership organization serving all individuals who create games” and it put out a statement in regards to the delisting of legal NSFW games at Steam and itch.io after pressure from payment processors. …Read more »
Many NSFW games have been erased from Steam and itch.io, due to the pressure of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard, who in turn seem to be responding to pressure from pro-censorship groups like Collective Shout. PC Gamer decided to interview some indie game developers …Read more »
Game site itch.io recently “deindexed” its NSFW content, pointing to payment processors and pressure from the pro-censorship group Collective Shout for the action. On July 28, itch.io gave an update on what’s going on, including a non-exhaustive list of subjects now banned. Partly explaining the …Read more »
After Steam pulled a bunch of video games due to receiving pressure from credit cards like Visa and Mastercard (who in turn were receiving pressure from pro-censorship groups like Collective Shout), game website itch.io has also been affected. “We have ‘deindexed’ all adult NSFW content …Read more »
Danica Davidson
