Why I Game: Because I Love Them

Why I Game: Because I Love Them

The end of August contained a couple of the worst weeks of my life in about three years. It was surprising, just how awful they were. It was a whole combination of things: I had been working a lot for the past four months with no holidays, I was worried about a number of personal things, and then I received the news that my grandmother had died. (more…)

Shocking Twist: Data Show #GamerGate Is About Harassing Women

According to objective data, #GamerGate is not about journalistic ethics. Colour me surprised.

Newsweek had Brandwatch analyze 25% of tweets to the GamerGate hashtag. The social media analytics firm looked at 500,000 tweets, going back to the inception of the hashtag. They found that the vast majority of tweets were directed to female developers and game critics, not journalists:

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Adobe Withdraws Accidental Support of #GamerGate

Felicia Day is Disappointed In You, #GamerGate, And You Proved Her Right

Last night, Felicia Day — creator of The Guild and all around awesome person — posted a gentle I’m Not Mad, I’m Just Disappointed to members of #GamerGate. Her post is thoughtful, sympathetic, and focused not on the hideous bile spewing from every orifice of the #GamerGate monster, but on the disappointment she felt in herself for allowing fear to keep her silent, and the disappointment that actions taken by a vocal majority have affected something she and so many others love so much and turned it into something to fear.

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