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ETHIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM IS.GD/GGQUICK QUICK& DIRTY e models strongly encourage bad journalism. Be the first to report, write frequent low-effort articles rather than few well-researched ones, jump on views-generating scandals. Maximize clicks. But poor journalism can backfire hard, leading to huge mistakes, and, sometimes, even It's not a mysterythat reviewers frequent- ly try to get their impressions quicklya d example being the 2008 IGN review 83% FOOTBALL Despite being a well-received entry in MANAGER the established sports management se- ries, with a very positive vote even from IGN's UK branch, the game rece unprecedented 2/10 slating from IGN's US peared clearly unaquainted with the gen- re-comparing the game to Fifa and Pro Evolution and lamenting that "apart from managing your roster and c team" Football Manger 2009 didn't offer Simcity 2013 also go any removed as IGN released an a A 81% an FURTHER READING IS.GD/GGSIMCITY MMORPG DarkFall Online-whose view, stating that not only the reviewer's account had clocked just two hours, but he had spent the majority of them creat ing new characters rather than playing. Eurogamer ac- cused the devs of lying. While the outlet did release a second review, the majority IS.GD/GGDORITOS lash and implying that the orig was legitimate, while Darkfall devs and didnt do the same for Rab Florence nal review's author, contributor Ed Zitron, never wrote for Eurogamer again. for Eurogamer Another embarassing moment in 2012, when an edited image from 4chan por traying three fake upcoming Playstation Vita titles was mistaken for a legitimate leak, and prompted an The news was picked up by Joystiq, Gamespot and IGN, whichalso ran with it. While these outlets soon edited their articles acknowleding the hoax, Kota- ku's Jason Schreier initially refused to admit he had been fooled, dismissi ed to him on Neogaf as insufficient, and finding IS.GD/GGSECRETS with many people calling his professionality into question. After accusing users of various forums of insulting him and lying, dismissing their argue- ments as "lol game journalism insults and ban- ning users from Kotaku, he eventually apologized. mejournoProsmailng l Bad journalism is not often something this more dramatic. Stardock's CEO, Brad Wardell, has felt them personally s consequences are Within days of the article hitting, forum posts, follow-up articles and abuse started flooding the net. I received numerous death threats including one so specific (it was clear they had driven up close to our house) that we called the police. The death threats included r--- threats against my wife and disgusting vile threats my chi For the past two years since, not a week goes by where someone doesnt send me a hate message [.. Primarly known for his stance against DRM, his pro-consumer "Gamers Bill of Rights" and Stardock's strategy games, dell had a great reputation when Kotaku, in 2012, wrote about two ongoing law- suits between his company and a former marketing employee. was sue hostile work environment, sexual har assment and battery, and Kotakur ed her allegations in detail, without any replied t Wardell was also accused of having coun- em ich ma IS.GD/GGSECRETS right before leaving the company-as re- taliation for the harassment suit. The Kotaku article had a large echo, and many follow-ups. 3 Ben Kuchera, then at Penny Arcade report, wrote about it, as did 4James Fudge, of Gamepolitics. Kuchera and Fudge were also in The lawsuits were settled in 2013, with the sexual harassment suit dismissed with prejudice and the having to publicly a to Wardell for filing her suit and destroying Stardock propriety as condition for the settlement. As Wardell stated, though, "Any time I speak on a mer Bioware developer Damion Schubert brought up". In up the Kotaku accusations in his blog, but, after e research and being shown more complete documents by Wardell, he issued an apology, con- ku for "s----- journali uments he had seen showed that Kotaku had re- ported the date of Stardock's allegedly-retaliatory lawsuit wrong by a full year. Wardell had been giv en mere hours to comment, and the employee's griviances had been laughed out of court. Shortly after this, Fudge also offered his"long over- due" apology for his article amePolitics.cm Kotaku's "s----- journalism has not yet stopped haunting Wardell, though. Just two months later he, as he habitually does, encouraged someone on Twitter to send Star- dock a resumé. Wardell was unaware that this person had made a crude, already re- moved, cartoon, and was viciously attacked by a controversy-hungry minor indie dev and her followers-who, again, brought against him the false and well-debunked sexual Despite his personal misadventures with it, Wardell has been extremely moderate in his on He has criticized individual writers-such as Ben Kuchera, whose double standards brought him to advocate for censorship of a game journalism sex scandal with the mo- tivation of "harassment', after a pivotal role in spreading slander on Wardell-or events such as the anti-consumer "Gamers are dead articles, but he seems to still hope that theres salvation for an industry tainted by "poor choices made by a few, believing that The average gaming journalist has immense integrity" and that most of them would "quit before taking a bribe or writing something intentionally biased READING IS.GD/GGHAND IS.GD/GGKOTAKU The "Gamers are d Kotaku is not infamous just for bad Despite Wardell's positivity, though, game journalism's already-abysmal reputation is constantly worsening, with increasingly large scandals hitting the troubled industry, as detailed, among others, by the now-numerous Ethic Fail infographs. Wardell's story, and several similar ones surfacing, should serve as a reminder of the im- portance of journalistic integrity-the most efficient answer to the continusly-escalating criticism of the gaming press. As Wardell says himself, "The media should acknowledge that theres a problem and that their customers are getting fed up with it"

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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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