Within the last 24 hours, the indie game storefront itch.io has reportedly been taken down by DDoS attacks multiple times. This is a sign of a concerning trend.

"The situation developed rapidly," said itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran, in what might turn out to be the understatement of the year. Almost overnight, game developers have awoken in a much more ...

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 ...

The itch.io website is offline, with the blame placed squarely on Funko. In a tweet, the indie game marketplace alleged that Funko, best known for its Funko Pop figures, used “some trash AI-powered ...

Users of itch.io were shocked to discover this morning that the platform has “deindexed” games that have been deemed NSFW. Basically, certain games are now hidden from people attempting to search or ...

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 ...

Last week, the typically indie digital-games storefront Itch.io deindexed a majority of not safe for work (NSFW) or adult content. Deindexing doesn't mean that the games are all no longer available, ...

After similar pressure was placed on Steam just last week, another storefront, Itch.io, has followed suit and culled the vast majority of its adult and sexual content. It cites the efforts of the ...

itch.io spent hours completely offline on Sunday night — and the indie game marketplace placed the blame on an automated takedown generated on behalf of Funko, maker of the Funko Pop collectable ...

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Digital storefront Itch.io is reindexing its free adult games, and is talking to its partnered payment processors about plans to gradually reintroduce paid NSFW content. In a new Developer Update, the ...

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