Parler, the “censorship-free” social media platform extremists used to hype the Jan. 6 insurrection, is back after an almost one-year hiatus. Meanwhile, online trolls are targeting a video game ...
In my previous article, I tried to make sense of the "GamerGate" drama, which its detractors have described as a sexist male backlash against women in the videogame culture and which its supporters ...
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 ...
It's now been a decade since "Gamergate" unleashed a widespread harassment campaign directed at women in gaming and demonstrated the real-life ramifications of hate speech online. A loosely organised ...
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 ...
Five years ago, an angry young man who furious about being dumped by his game developer ex, wrote a blog post full of the kinds of sexualized accusations abusive men make when trying to ruin women’s ...
The train just keeps rolling along, huh? It's been weeks since the gaming community was first embroiled in a rich stew of controversy — #GamerGate, as it's called — and depending on who you ask, it's ...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, slated for release February 4, occupies a very weird place in the gaming culture war right now, ...
Editor’s note: Allum Bokhari is a political consultant who plays far too many vidya games. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a BA in History & Politics, he spent some time interning ...
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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 ...
Journalist and lawyer Sarah Jeong will speak on the topic “Gamergate and the New Paradigm of Media” as a Poynter Fellow on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 2:30 p.m. in the auditorim of the Whitney Humanities ...