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ETHIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGDORITOS THE GIFTS OF DORITOSGATE Doritosgate is a 2012 scandal involving collusion between advertisers and gaming press, popularly symbolized by the blank stare of game journalist 1 Geoff Keighley being in- terviewed while surrounded by Doritos, Mountain Dew and promotional posters. Doritos oritos oos XP DEWXP.com Doritosgate originated with an editorial written by Eurogamer contributor and non-game journalist 2 Rab Florence , which discussed the lack of ethical standards of the gaming press, and their excessively friendly relationship with game industry PR people. Florence criticized the Games Media Awards - an UK event sponsored by game publish- ers where game journalists receive awards from PR representatives. 2 The GMAs shouldn't exist. By rights, that room should be full of people who feel uncomfortable in each other's company PR people should be looking at games journos and think- ing, "That person makes my job very challenging." Why are they all best buddies? What the hell is going on? GAMER A competition held at the 2012 GMAs awarded game journalists who advertised a cer tain game on twitter a chance to win a Playstation 3. Florence quoted in his article some game journalists who had defended this competition from accusations of bribery, and argued that, although certainly innocent of corruption, these journalists were hurting their credibility with this endorsement. One of the journalists Florence quoted, 3 Lauren Wainwright threatened legal action. Eurogamer, in response, par tially censored Florence's piece prompting his resignation and a very strong internet backlash uren Wainwrigh Gatheistium Staft Writer, games blogger and The Sun, IGN and more. UK 3 against Wainwright. Wainwright, an enthusiastic praiser of video game Tomb Raider, was discovered to have listed work with the game's publisher Square Enix in her resume (references to which she deleted), and to have written reviews of their games- which she had denied doing She has since admitted her threatened lawsuit was "a mistake Florence's article sparked a very large discussion even before the censorship controversy gave it a larg- er echo, with articles on nearly every major outlet. Kotaku editor in chief 4 Stephen Totilo, when he was asked about coverage of the topic, dismissed the entire affair as "not important" and the same old tired nonsense". He thoroughly apologized after re- ceiving some scathing criticism, and proceeded to write a very lengthy and exhaustive article In his piece he addresses the long-standing accusation of being "too cozy with the game industry" faced by the press, which, he admits, operates at what would appear to out siders as "the brink of bribery". He has had to turn down or give away regular gifts from publishers, including things like a mini-surround system, a chess set and a trip to Disn- eyland On the other hand, though, he also says that "criticism of the gaming press is so com mon it can become white noise", and that valid complaints are mixed with "a sea of misreadings". He is confident that, counterbalancing the too many press releases mas- querading as news, there is a lot of good reporting, and he is hopeful that there will be more in the future Minor scandals about game journalists accepting gifts still surface fairly regularly. Among the most recent, publisher Ubisoft gifting a Nexus 7 tablet to all journalists present at an exclusive preview of their video game Watch Dogs Two years after Doritosgate, criticism of the gaming press gained extreme visibility with the very large consumer revolt GamerGate. 1:11 11더세 IS.GD/GGIN FO AIINIIN.AY ISED/ETHICFAIL I

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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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