There has been more text written about the controversy known as "GamerGate" than lines of dialogue in the newly released fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Inquisition. In fact, whether GamerGate ...
If #Gamergate teaches us anything — beyond, of course, vastly obvious observations about the toxicity of certain Internet demographics (which is hardly new news) — it’s that algorithms and formulaic ...
My colleague Erik Kain reports on the sadly abbreviated "SJP AirPlay", the oddly-titled event convened by the chair of the Society of Professional Journalists' Florida chapter to discuss how ...
#GamerGate---the amorphous online gamer movement that's either god's gift to gaming or a hate-inspired campaign against women depending on who you ask---is turning one-year-old. It sure has been an ...
It began as an attempt to shut up one woman – a video-game developer who had criticized the entrenched sexism and misogyny in her industry – by “slut-shaming” her and then threatening her. As other ...
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Video gamers are having a bizarre debate over whether sending death threats to women is a serious issue or not, as Business Insider discovered looking into the GamerGate movement. To anyone who is not ...
What's behind the culture clash of gamers? — -- intro: With the popularity of games on consoles, online and via mobile devices, there is no longer one profile of the "typical" gamer. A ...
Meet video game developer Zoe Quinn. Zoey Quinn appears in this video grab from the YouTube video, "Harassment In The Games World" posted Oct. 15, 2014. YouTube — -- The woman at the center of a ...
This is how far we have to go: the Entertainment Software Association, a U.S. video game trade association and sometime D.C. lobbyist group, is now having to remind us that threatening to do violent ...
Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a games industry consultant, freelance designer and the creator of leading design blog What Games Are. You can follow him on Twitter here. The hashtag is still going, as ...