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ETHIC FAIL -SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGNUMBER UNRELIABLE NUMBERS Consumers' trust is particularly valuable for game reviewers, and the gaming press has historically been short of it - and under constant suspicion of colluding with game pub- shers to inflate scores Sometimes, these suspicions have been very strongly fueled In 2005, gaming website GameSpy faced accusations of collusion for their review of Donkey Konga 2 -a rhythm game published by Nintendo, which at the time used GameSpy for its online services Freelancer Nick Marangos, the reviewer, revealed that GameSpy had heavily altered his work without his consent, making his review much more favourable towards the game and changing the final vote from a harsh 1.5/5 to a passing 3/5 The ensuing backlash prompted GameSpy to remove the review, and at the time the event had heavy publicity - including a 2 Penny Arcade strip What did I say? Did I say two point Pive? Because I Meant... Pour point Pive 2 A large game journalism scandal took place in 2004, with the release of Atari's 3 Driver 3 . While the game was critically panned for its derivative for- mula and, especially, for its buggy and unfinished state, its release was preced- ed by two near-perfectly scored 9/10 exclusive reviews on British magazines Xbox World and PSM2 - both belonging to Future Publishing 50 Accusations of corruption were also fueled by a forum post published before the reviews from a user claiming to work at an UK magazine. The poster claimed that, in the rush for exclusive first reviews, magazine editors were agreeing with game publishers to trade higher scores for earlier review copies. He provided several ex amples of games whose early reviews had higher scores, and stated that Atari was attempting to trade early review codes for Driver 3 in exchange for a score of at least 9/10, but the unfinished version of the game being offered to reviewers wasn't up to expectations In the huge uproar that ensued, Future's official forums heavily censored discussion of this topic. Eventually, Future deputy editor Nick Ellis responded on the forums, denying all accusations of bribery but admitting that the reviews were based on an unfinished version of the game, and on Atari's promise that the bugs would have been fixed before release EDG Future OF THEFT AUTO 4 Future publishing came under scrutiny again in 2011, when freelancer Richard Stanton held a casual Q&A session on Twitter Stanton, who worked for Future's 4 Edge Magazine, answered several questions about his experience in the game review business. He stated that game publishers indirectly control everything" in reviewing outlets, and admitted that reviews changed scores be- fore publication. He stated that the dodgiest publisher he had to work with was Rock star Games, and that Edge's review for their game 5 Grand Theft Auto 4 had the vote changed to a 10/10 by the magazine, from the reviewer's original 9/10 When his revelations started to be get attention, Stanton hurriedly deleted everything, and published an apology and retraction, where he stated he had written "in a moment of anger", and that he wished for his statements not to be reported as fact. Not having worked for Edge since, he has always refused to comment on this incident. I'lIA[ 서 IS.GD/GGINFO'l' Milld 서 IS.GD/ETHICFAIL

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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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