The 2024 itch.io Takedown refers to an incident in which the indie gaming-oriented digital distribution website itch.io had ...

Popular indie game platform itch.io says its domain was briefly taken down for a few hours Monday morning thanks to an ...

Indie game distribution site Itch.io has been offline today, and it has a truly bizarre reason as to why.

Itch.io was offline for a few hours, and it was all due to Funko and an AI tool it uses to generate claims, Itch.io claims.

Itch.io says an AI-powered "brand protection software" sent phishing reports notices to its domain registrar and hosting ...

Funko and BrandShield have responded to claims made by Itch.io owner Leaf Corcoran about the site's outage yesterday, and ...

Itch.io is taken down due to an automated takedown request The cause is Funko Pop's AI-powered BrandShield The indie gaming ...

The software allegedly used by Funko that took the itch.io site down is made by a company called BrandShield. BrandShield describes itself as an “AI-powered online anti-counterfeiting solution” that ...

Funko has released a statement acknowledging their role in the takedown of itch.io but stopping short of apologizing.

Itch.io was taken offline for several hours earlier today following what the site's owner calls a "bogus" phishing claim by ...

The itch.io website was recently shut down, blaming Funko for flagging a disputed page under an alleged phishing report.