Apple is utilizing Itch.io’s ‘offensive and sexualized’ video games as a cudgel towards Epic


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Shortly earlier than the Epic v. Apple trial, Epic Video games made an attention-grabbing announcement: it might supply the indie sport storefront Itch.io as an app by itself Epic Video games Retailer. The Fortnite writer was going to trial with the goal of constructing Apple supply competing app shops on its iPhone and iPad, so the transfer confirmed that Epic was prepared to open up its personal retailer in the identical method.

On the fifth day of courtroom, nonetheless, Apple tried to show Itch.io right into a legal responsibility — by telling Epic Video games Retailer basic supervisor Steven Allison about “so-called grownup video games” that have been “so offensive we can not discuss them right here.”

Itch.io is one among comparatively few non-game apps on the Epic Video games Retailer, together with software program just like the Courageous browser. It’s additionally, as we’ve…

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