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Can't We All Just Get Along?

Michael Abbott of The Brainy Gamer and Angela of Lesbian Gamers recently collaborated on a short essay aiming to address what they define as "the hostile climate that frequently arises within the gaming community." They tried isolating specific concerns about some gamer behavior and raising questions about how to handle them, and just published what they've come up with.

Here's an excerpt:

Ironically, the medium we love that provides us with so much joy has also developed a fanbase with a reputation for anti-social, intolerant behavior in both Australia and the United States where we live. We know it's a gross and unfair mischaracterization, but the broad set of cultural assumptions about games and gamers is largely negative, and we too often affirm those assumptions by our own behavior.

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8:40 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Leigh Alexander
4,718 views, 80 comments

blood elves is serious business

Burning Crusade Levels Vivendi Sales

When you release a nigh-essential expansion for a game that boasts around 8 million players, and you're going to make a tidy bit of cash. Perhaps the next World of Warcraft expansion won't take nearly as long to come out now that Vivendi's games division has reported a 117% rise in revenues for the first quarter of 2007 over last year, amounting to a whopping $394 million. More »

12:20 PM on Wed May 16 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,749 views, 18 comments

loco roco

Toastyfrog Rebuts Racism, Calls Out Internet For Dickery

Hey, Kotaku readership! Remember earlier this week, when both Brian "Briana" Ashcraft and Florian "I Don't Want To Piss This Man Off" Eckhardt weighed in on whether the (seemingly) dreadlocked, blackfaced Loco Roco bad guys hit a little too close to home on the picaninny front? No? Well, they were both giving their opinions on one particular 1UP blogger's initial reaction to potentially offensive character designs that even I, Mr. Insensitive, thought might stir up some ire. More »

7:35 PM on Sat Jul 1 2006
By Michael McWhertor
260 views, 20 comments

Latest by chef: For Loco Roco, people are seeing what they want to see. Try this optical illusion (probably NSFW); different people see different things based on what they already know and/or expect. This is getting so blown out of proportion; it's good more »