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GayGamer Target of Hate Crime
A hacker has knocked GayGamer.net, the only news gathering gay-gaming site, offline with a series of denial of service attacks after flooding the site with threatening emails and hate speech, the site's owner said Sunday.
Flynn De Marco, the site's owner and Kotaku weekend editor, said small waves of denial of service attacks started Wednesday morning, causing occasional timeouts on the site. By Friday the site, working with their host, was able to block the IPs where the DOS attacks seemed to be coming from. Then Friday evening someone began flooding the site's forums and chat room with hate speech, including some death threats, and over-sized images meant to bog down the site, De Marco said. The flood of messages and images all originated from the same IP in Philidelphia, he added.
The site deleted the offensive messages, but the continued DOS attacks lead to the site's host taking GayGamer down until the attacks could be permanently blocked. De Marco hopes to get the site operational by Monday, but is having problems getting a straight answer from their host, GoDaddy.Com.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations a hate crime, also known as a bias crime, is a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin.
Its sad to see that even in the virtual worlds of gaming and game coverage people decide that the only way they can express themselves is by attacking others. Hit the jump to read GayGamer's official statement on the outage.
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Chocobo Tales Dioramas
GayGamer went all artsy with their latest contest, asking readers to create their own Chocobo Tales dioramas for a chance to win a copy of the DS game and a stuffed Chocobo. More »
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MTV Profiles Gay Gamers
Hey, that's weekend czar Flynn! And he's 39 years old! MTV did a news clip on gay gaming culture with interviews from industry notable Brenda Brathwaite, designer Jeb Haven, Joystiq's Alexander Sliwinski as well as GayGamer's Boy of Tomorrow, the eternally fabulous Tiny Dancer and, like I said, weekend czar Flynn. It airs on MTV News at 1:50am on Saturday or 3:50am and 7:50am on Monday. For those impatient ones click here to read the article and here to watch the clip. More »
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Contest: Win A DS Lite, FF Game. Not From Us!
To inspire me to hurry it up with our PS3 contest (sorry all!), I bring word of a DS Lite contest they've got over at Gay Gamer. Not only a DS Lite contest, but also a copy of Final Fantasy VI Advance contest. They'll be running a question every day this week for a total of five (count 'em) questions. They've already got two up: Here and here. They've got rules, too. Send all of your answers to GG by midnight March 17th. Now, I can go back to plotting our evil and difficult PS3 contest. Mwahahahahahahahahahaha.
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Clips: Elebits Pratfall, Reloaded
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