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GamerGate - History of Ethics failures - Kotaku and friends

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THIC FAIL SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGKOTAKU FRIENDS AT KOTAKU Several writers working at Kotaku, Gawker network's gaming outlet, have been accused of giving disproportionate and biased coverage to their friends. Controversial Kotaku writer 1 Patricia Hernandez has lived together with her close friend 2 Anna Anthropy, developer of Dys4ia, Redder and 2 Mighty Jill Off, and has given her positive coverage in six articles. Four of the articles were published after Her- nandez had lived with Anthropy, none of them contained any form of disclosure addition, Hernandez admitted to dating v Christine Love, and wrote about her game Hate Plus twice Both articles have a dispropor- tionate number of links encour- aging the purchase of Love's work and, once more, no disclosure I novel developer Don't you ever feel really strongly, sometimes, that you just want a nice hug? It doesn't bother me Kotaku was hit by a scandal in August 2014, due to its writer Nathan Grayson and his relationship with the developer of 5 Depression Quest. It was discovered that the developer cheated on her boyfriend with Grayson, who had previously covered her and her text adventure very positively in two articles-one for his previous job at Rock Pa- per Shotgun, and one for Kotaku, published about a week before their affair. Grayson and the developer are proven to be acquainted since before this last article with the two traveling to Las Vegas together and Grayson participating as a tester since a very early version of Depression Quest- with his name appearing in the credits. The developer of Depression Quest was featured as a guest writer on Kotaku shortly be- fore releasing her game, and is also a personal friend of Patricia Hernandez. Hernandez wrote two articles about her and her game, with no disclosure of this friendship What de you de? 2: Go bo bed Ihphouldnt be that hard Depress1ntoughts back off for five seconds meno·utofotmseis neer with your whr cert you stop Quest tronlfiction end fack everything up and get fired 6: Ge to your computer. Sleep is elearly het happening 4 FURTHER READING FURTHER READING S.GD/GGSECRETS IS.GD/GGQUICK The Grayson scandal was censored by aligned gaming press Kotaku's embarassingly poor journalism goes beyond cronyism While this is the most famous case of cronyism involving Grayson, it's not the only one-he also wrote without disclosure about friends such as mini-game developer Nina Freeman and the staff of mobile game company White Whale games. Perhaps, though, Grayson's most blantant impropriety is the overwhelming coverage giv en to his friend, sound designer 6 Robin Arnott Author of Oculus Rift game Soundself, Arnott received an abnormal amount of coverage from Grayson, being plugged six times in three months, with the bulk of the coverage for Soundself coming from Kotaku A judge of "Night Games", the branch of independent games festival Indiecade where Depression Quest wa ed, Arnott also had an affair with the t adven- nd the same time as Grayson ture's developer at had his. f 7Stephen Totilo has Kotaku editor in chi talked about the majority of the case here, stating that there was no violation of j na xpo He states that Grayson's mentions of Arnot n Quest's developer was ics, since it wa Grayson, their affair happened a week after cidental, and his article about Depres th- 0 a review and tilo stated that the very large volume of cov- erage Hernandez gave to her friends was tified. When Gamergate protests escalated, he eventually conceded that the lack of disclosure was a "screw up" caused by inexperience and IS.GD/GGDORITOS Totilo also initiall handwaved the iss see mmu ation, and a disclaimer wa sca added to the Hernandez articles. Totilo stated that asking for an apology would be excessive-just an act to shame the writ ILIJlAY IS.GD/GGINFO.·1IN!!!l: AY IS.GD/ETHICFAIL

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This image is apart of the Ethics fail series. This is part 5. This image depicts the relations of kotaku writers with their friends and how they've been repeatedly giving them preferential coverage without actually disclosing it or otherwise noting that they're invoking cronyism. Stephen attempts to paint Nathan Grason innocent by pointing out that he did not review depression quest, he just said really really nice things about it.

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