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THIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM #GAMERGATE UNFAIR ADVANTAGE Coverage from game outlets is often the difference between success and obscurity for indie developers. But the endorsement of many journalists seems to be based not on merit, but on con- nections -granting privileged industry access to those in their clique One journalist that has come to symbolize the incestuous relationship between the gaming press and its subjects is Patricia Hernandez. Hernandez has written at least ten articles on developers who were her room mates, or even in a romantic relationship with her, such as Christine Love, offering glowing endorse- ment and lots of links encouraging purchase but no trace of disclosure until the scandal's unearthing forced her employers at Kotaku to edit them, and admit this was a "screw up" Many of the journalists accused of using their position unfairly were members of the secret mailing list,★GamejoumoPros , which saw the participation of many elite game journalists - for example, 2 Nathan Grayson, Hernandez's colleague, focus of scandals concerning critical distance, or the face of Gamasutra, their con- troversial editor-at-large ) Leigh Alexander . Alexander is one of the most polarizing people in game journalism, peppering her Twitter feed with controversial content through her career- even outright threats and doxxing - and spear- heading the notorious "Gamers are dead arti- cles of August 2014with an inflammatory piece calling gamers "obtuse shitslingers, "wailing hyper-consumers", "childish internet-arguers" accusing them of not knowing "how to dress or to behave" and encouraging the industry to UTRA shun them as customers. Subjects Alexander covered that she had a confirmed personal, non-professional relationship with include Anna Anthrophy, Christine Love, Robin Arnott (who also had similar friends-with-coverage benefits with Nathan Grayson) Ramiro Corbetta and Naomi Clark Alexander also founded and co-owns the game developers consulting firm "Agency for Games", and directly promotes its customers through social media and her per Alexander has not replied to these allegations, but has hidden her Facebook and 4 n- ed many debates when it came out in 2013, and its average scores on re- view aggregator Metacritic show a huge gap between the very positive 53% (86%) and much harsher criticism First to review the game was Poly gon's O Danielle Riendeau , whose lavish 10/10 evaluation contained no mention of Gone Home's most often noted flaws-such as the short no disclosure of her belonging to the ldle Thumbs pocast team, to- gether with two of the game's small team of developers, one o she admitted to being a long-time good friend" to when she partici- pated in the podcast one week be- fore the review. This "good friend only one who commented on these suspicions, confirming his friend- ship with Riendeau but doubting that it had influenced her score Among other positive cover ge for Gone 95/100 from Marty Sliva, at least an acquaintance of Idle Thumbs, and praise from Leigh Alexander, a friend of the game's voice actress. we find IGN'S Slow-selling Facebook-in-space received fairly polarized reviews, averaging at 62 on Metacritic despite some very positive coverage on certain simulator Redshirt was praised on both PC by Cara Ellison , who was re- ceiving money on Patreon from Redshirt's author Mitu Khandak er-Kokoris, as well as on Kotaku by Khandakers friend Kirk Hamilton. ng positive coverage to Kokoris was Gamasutra's Kris Lig man, who started receiving mon- ey from Khandaker on his Patreon four days before the article was published and was also a judge at the Indiecade awards, where Red Riendeau and Hernandez also praised the game, although no sol- id connection has yet been discov- re i though, with another endorser of the game, Khandakers Facebook friend since 2009 - Leigh Alexander Khandaker did reply to these sus- picions, but only commented on the connection with Ellison, which she claims only received small amounts. She also states that every claim of unfair advantage due to friendship made thus far, such as those listed here, is a conspiracy t ■ILI ITH 1S.GD/GGINFO ELFillMAIS.GD/ETHICFAILI

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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