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 ...
The Anti-Defamation League is taking its fight against hate to the world of video games, starting with supporting and training game developers in hopes of eventually reaching the massive 2.6 billion ...
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...