Jan 3
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Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010.
Dec 12
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It’s true: Five is a ridiculous number for summing up a decade’s worth of video games. It’s far too small. One can’t…
Sep 5 2018
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Game developer Brianna Wu lost her bid for Congress yesterday and in a series of tweets acknowledged shortcomings of…
Aug 31 2018
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When I arrive at the headquarters of Brianna Wu For Congress, a modest house near the bottom of a quiet street in…
Mar 18 2017
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Internet cretins engaged in a harassment campaign against a woman who worked for Electronic Arts this weekend,…
Nov 29 2016
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Donald Trump’s cabinet is coming together, and it’s become impossible to ignore some real and direct connections to…
Jun 23 2016
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Nintendo has publicly denied that joke from an E3 demo for the upcoming Wii U game Paper Mario: Color Splash is a…
May 11 2016
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Game publisher Paradox issued an unusual statement this morning, defending a negative IGN review of their newest…
Mar 4 2016
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Gaming’s culture war hasn’t ended. It’s still roiling, with new fights, new targets, new depths of ugliness, but…
Nov 6 2015
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Get ready for Gamergate: The Movie? Deadline reports that producer Amy Pascal is developing a film based on a memoir by indie developer Zoe Quinn. If it happens, it’ll showcase the movement that has made so many people’s lives miserable over the past year. Scarlett Johansson is reportedly interested in starring.
Oct 30 2015
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Festival South By Southwest has reinstated the two cancelled gaming panels, and announced an all-day seminar. One panel was about harassment; the other, GamerGate-leaning panel focused on ethics and politics. Both return, though SXSW will work with them to “to develop the most productive focus for their appearances.”
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Oct 26 2015
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Two gaming-related panels for the upcoming South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas have been unexpectedly…
Jul 2 2015
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“I actually tried to fight in armor myself,” the game developer Daniel Vávra said. We were in the middle of a…
May 2 2015
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Attendees at a GamerGate meetup evacuated a bar in Washington, DC last night after police showed up in response to a…
Apr 17 2015
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The Honey Badger Brigade, a group of men and women sympathetic to men’s rights activism and calling itself a…
Mar 13 2015
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It's Monday, March 2nd, the first day of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and I can't help but…
Feb 11 2015
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When Law & Order: SVU takes on video games, the results are usually not pretty. Tonight's episode—a GamerGate…
Feb 5 2015
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Last night, members of the GamerGate campaign exploded with glee as they read through a brand new set of damning,…
Nov 29 2014
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Oct 30 2014
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Critic Anita Sarkeesian just made an appearance on The Colbert Report, in an interview which followed a section of…