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.

Hello, faithful readers: As you might have noticed, we have had some connection issues in the last few days and now the site is completely down. I'm sad to say that we have been the target of homophobic hackers. Thankfully, they didn't get to our database so all of our stuff is still in tact. At this point we are jut waiting for our service provider to ensure everything is good before putting the server back online. Hopefully, this will be resolved by the end of this weekend, so please keep checking back. You can't keep a good gay gamer down, so we'll be back before you know it, serving up all the sassy game content you can handle. Cheers, Fruit Brute

Kotaku-286127 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:32:32 MDT Brian Crecente http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=286127&view=rss&microfeed=true

Chocobo Tales Diorama Contest Entries Gallery [Gay Gamer]

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. Brian Ashcraft

GG on MTV [GayGamer]

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. Brian Ashcraft

This is not a double post. Well, it is. But indulge me. On Monday, we posted a clip of an Elebit falling down and being wheeled around by Konami employees. Funny, right? Yeah, but only heh heh humorous. Leave it to a Gay Gamer reader to prove one thing: Speeding things up is bwahahahahahaha hilarious. Benny Hill music, too! Brian Ashcraft

Elebit Fall Part Deux [Gay Gamer]

We've gotten a number of emails from myopic, stigmatized gamers that Dead Rising has a bit of a blurry text problem. And in that regard, my homoerotic, velvet-swishing soul mates over at Gay Gamer have some bitching to do:

Dead Rising has the smallest text I've ever seen. I'm playing on a 36" TV and I have to sit on the floor up near the screen to see anything. I absolutely can't play for a long period of time because my eyes start to strain themselves and hurt. This has never happened to me with a game before. Is anybody else having this problem?

In all seriousness, even using component cables the picture is sharper, but the text is still like reading a font at size 12 from six feet away. There is no option to increase the text size - talk about stupid things ruining the game experience. I'm begging for a text size adjustment patch to be uploaded to the marketplace for download - oh, and for free! Look for our full review of Dead Rising as soon as I stop massaging my eyes to make the pain go away.

Which just goes to show that my mother's curious aphorism was right: too much wanking off to imagined gay video game characters will make you go blind. Florian Eckhardt