The Great NSFW Purge of 2025 - Itch.io, Steam, and MORE

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The Great NSFW Purge of 2025 - Itch.io, Steam, and MORE

Link: https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

https://aftermath.site/waypoint-quit-steam-vice

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/australian-anti-porn-group-claims-responsibility-for-steams-new-censorship-rules-in-victory-against-porn-sick-brain-rotted-pedo-gamer-fetishists-and-things-only-get-weirder-from-there/

Unlike Steam, ALL NSFW content has been deindexed from the site, meaning it will not show up in Browse or Search. This comes at the heel of the news that Steam had removed a ton of NSFW content for not meeting the standards set by Visa/MasterCard. Itch has also removed games from libraries with no chance of a refund.

Related News: Vice Writer Ana Valen published two articles about the Steam Payment Processor Controversy and who is behind it. Savage Ventures, Vice’s owner, demanded Valen remove said articles. She has since quit, alongside two OTHER writers too over what appears to be censorship of the topic.

Many have suggested Valve and the like not capitulate and instead offer stablecoin payments… but can such a thing really exist?

VTuber Talent Agency VShojo Implodes as EVERY VTuber leaves the company

Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/streaming/twitchs-most-popular-vtuber-leads-a-mass-exodus-from-her-agency-claiming-it-withheld-over-usd500k-in-charity-funds-this-entire-situation-has-broken-me/

VShojo is a VTuber Talent Agency host to some of the biggest VTubers (and Streamers) period, such as Ironmouse. And on the topic of Ironmouse, she was the first of what would be this mass exodus of talent due to VShojo withholding funds meant to go to Immune Deficiency Foundation (about $500,000+) despite Ironmouse being the one to raise all of these funds to go specifically to this charity.

In solidarity, MORE and more talent has decided to leave, including some OG members too. On top of that, some talents have revealed not being paid by VShojo for MONTHS.

Stop Killing Games REACHES GOAL

Link: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

They finally hit 1.4 Million! They SHOULD be safe unless a SIGNIFICANT part of the signatures are botted, which I HIGHLY doubt. As of the writing of this segment the exact count is 1,414,231

1/3 of all online teenagers use AI chatbots for “friendships” and “romantic conversations”

Link: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/one-third-of-teens-use-ai-for-friendship-and-romantic-conversations-3230725/

https://character.ai/

Common Sense Media conducted research and discovered that 1/3 of all teens use AI chatbots to replace traditional human interaction for things like romance and friendships.

We should also try Character.ai for this one since that’s ONE such website where people can talk to AI facsimiles of fictional characters or real people.

Destiny 2’s World’s First Raid Race FULL of Cheaters

Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/07/25/70-of-destiny-2s-top-contest-mode-clearing-raid-teams-cheated/

Destiny 2’s new expansion pack, The Edge of Fate, released and with every new expansion comes a new raid in the form of “The Desert Perpetual”, and with every new raid, a world’s first raid race. As per the article, of the top 100 teams to finish, 70 of those 100 were cheating in some form or another. Many of these could be gleamed by reviewing team stats, since raid completion stats are made public to everyone.

2025’s worst new game JUST came out - HunterxHunter Nen Impact

Link: https://www.thegamer.com/hunter-x-hunter-nen-x-impact-worst-reviewed-game-user-score-2025/

Move over Mindseye, a new worse reviewing game just released, and it’s the Hunter x Hunter fighting game!

Outer Worlds 2 Price Drop — Microsoft Backs Off $80 Games

→ No more $80 price tags? Microsoft’s pulling back after trying to follow Nintendo’s “charge what we want” model.

📖 Source: PC Gamer

Lenovo Legion Go 2 — First Hands-On Impressions

Better grips, OLED, and more RAM?! Is this finally the Steam Deck challenger we wanted?

📖 Source: PC Gamer

0:00Introduction

2:48What have we been playing this week

15:35Payment Processors are having their way with the Itch, now. (NSFPP)

41:07VShojo shuts down over financial impropriety

52:23Stop Killing Games has reached its goal

58:071/3rd of teens substituting AI chatbots for real social activity

1:17:2570% of Destiny players are cheaters (and they're not even Linux users)

1:26:002025's worst game

1:31:16Splitgate 2 layoffs

1:41:53Microsoft backs off the $80 price point for The Outer Worlds 2

1:51:20Lenovo Legion Go 2 Leak

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The Great NSFW Purge of 2025 - Itch.io, Steam, and MORE | Episode 40

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