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SERIES · ESTABLISHED 2007
Crackdown
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COVERED BY 52 WRITERS
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Ryan McCaffrey, Andy Chalk, Brandin Tyrrel and 49 more across 15 outlets
Writers indexed
52
Entries
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Articles
52
Reviews
17
Outlets
15
3 ENTRIES
Every game in the series
WRITER INDEX
Covering Crackdown
Each writer's count reflects their lifetime indexed pieces on any Crackdown entry.
LATEST COVERAGE
Across the series
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Levi Winslow GameSpot·14 Oct
Retro Handhelds Loaded With Unlicensed Games Could Face Government CrackdownnewsComparisononRetro
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Ryan McCaffrey IGN·16 Sept
Crackdown Was So Much More Than Just the Halo 3 Beta’s Pack-In GamenewsonHalo 3
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Julian Benson Rock Paper Shotgun·2 Sept
The adult game crackdown is "ridiculous for our art form", say Hellraiser devs, but they think they'll survive thanks to that Clive Barker associationnewsComparisononClive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival
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Ashley Bardhan GamesRadar+·20 Apr
Square Enix slaps Final Fantasy 14 content creator with lawsuit over alleged harassment, continuing its crackdown on the MMO's bulliesnewsComparisononFinal Fantasy XIV Online
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Wesley Yin-Poole IGN·20 Mar
Slay the Spire 2 Dev Outlines First Big Post-Launch Patch: Huge Balance Pass, Crackdown on Infinites, and a Phobia ModenewsonSlay the Spire II
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Scott Duwe Destructoid·23 Feb
Bungie promises hard anti-cheat crackdown in Marathon: 'No second chances for cheaters'newsComparisononMarathon
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Bee Wertheimer Kotaku·19 Jan
Marvel Rivals Promises A Crackdown On The Recent Epidemic Of ‘Lord Farming’newsComparisononMarvel Rivals
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Joel Franey GamesRadar+·27 Nov 2025
18 years after it owned the Xbox 360 era, Crackdown deserves so much better – and should have one more chance to prove itselfnewsonCrackdown
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Dominic Tarason PC Gamer·25 Nov 2025
Enormous mod Elden Ring Reforged refreshes and rebalances every inch of the game, works with Seamless Co-op, and even throws in a Crackdown orb-style scavenger huntnewsComparisononElden Ring
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Kenneth Shepard Kotaku·24 Nov 2025
Report: GTA 6 Dev Firings Started With A Crackdown In SlacknewsComparisononGrand Theft Auto VI
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Ed Nightingale Eurogamer·7 Oct 2025
Nintendo seeks $4.5m against reddit moderator accused of pirating Switch games, in latest crackdown against piracynewsComparisononCrackdown
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Tom Phillips IGN·15 Aug 2025
McDonald's Announces Pokémon Crackdown After Scalpers Scoop Up Card Stock, Waste FoodnewsComparisononMcDonald's
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·14 Aug 2025
Roblox explains crackdown on 'vigilantes' after ban of a popular YouTuber sparks furor: 'They are acting in ways that could be harmful to others, both on and off our platform'newsComparisononCrackdown
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Ethan Gach Kotaku·14 Aug 2025
Valve Blames ‘NSFW’ Crackdown For Why Some Steam Players Can No Longer Use PayPal To Buy Games Like Cyberpunk 2077newsComparisononCyberpunk 2077
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Scott Duwe Destructoid·31 Jul 2025
Marvel Rivals is planning a big crackdown on toxic game chat in its next update, so watch your mouthnewsComparisononMarvel Rivals
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Issy van der Velde GamesRadar+·30 Jul 2025
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 anti-porn groupnewsComparisononFacing
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Joshua Wolens PC Gamer·29 Jul 2025
Itch.io releases list of the adult content you can't put on its store anymore after anti-NSFW crackdown, including stuff that's not illegal but just ickynewsComparisononCrackdown
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·29 Jul 2025
Game developers association decries 'financial censorship' amidst payment processor crackdown on NSFW games, calls for 'greater transparency and fairness in how adult games are moderated'newsComparisononCrackdown
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Catherine Lewis GamesRadar+·29 Jul 2025
Viral horror game Mouthwashing no longer appears in Itch.io search results, but that's not because of the new crackdown on NSFW games, marketplace confirmsnewsComparisononCrackdown
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·28 Jul 2025
Itch.io denies hiding one of 2024's best games from search results amid the payment processor crackdown on NSFW games, says it's been de-indexed since October 2024 because 'it doesn't meet our indexing criteria'newsComparisononMouthwashing
