2/09/21 5:45PM
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Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent is being sued by former employee Sharon O’Donnell, who is alleging Laurent committed…
10/22/20 3:00PM
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Last Friday, Xbox Brazil video host Isadora Basile announced that Microsoft had severed ties with her. In a tweet,…
7/14/20 3:30PM
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Several prominent members of the gaming community have come together to organize a new text-based hotline aimed at…
7/06/20 5:00PM
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The Last of Us Part 2 developer Naughty Dog put out a statement over the weekend condemning harassment and threats…
7/06/20 10:45AM
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There’s a story some people tell at Ubisoft Toronto, the studio currently finishing one of this fall’s bigger…
6/29/20 8:30PM
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Two people have accused Mike Zaimont, a lead designer on Skullgirls and Indivisible, of making them uncomfortable…
6/18/20 8:45AM
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EA says it will ratchet up efforts to crack down on harassment and toxic behavior in its game. This includes making “additional resources and tools” available to its moderation and reporting systems. The publisher says in the past few weeks over 3,500 player-made, in-game assets were removed for being inappropriate…
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4/29/20 12:15PM
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Speaking to Kotaku, Riot has reaffirmed its commitment to snuffing out Valorant harassment issues asap, but stopped short of detailing future plans. “We know this is a hard problem to tackle, and will take time, but I’d feel irresponsible accepting this as the status quo,” executive producer Anna Donlon said in an…
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4/27/20 6:00PM
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It is a regrettable sign of our times that women sharing videos of vocal, sustained harassment they’ve received in…
1/03/20 3:00PM
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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.
8/30/19 12:43PM
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YouTuber Jared “ProJared” Knabenbauer has posted a video denying allegations from three months ago that he supposedly had exchanged nude photos with two underage fans. Knabenbauer acknowledged that he did exchange nude photos with other fans, clarified that this was “consensual,” although there was a “power imbalance”…
8/20/19 6:00PM
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One of the easiest bits of news to miss on Monday’s Gamescom Opening Night Live show was tucked away in an ad for…
8/13/19 8:35PM
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Discord, the only way young people communicate via voice after we collectively agreed to stop answering phone calls…
8/06/19 7:30PM
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The developers of cutesy Animal Crossing-Pokemon mashup Ooblets just had a weekend from hell. After trying to…
7/25/19 6:00AM
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74 percent of adults who play games online have experienced some form of harassment, according to a new report…
1/29/19 3:00PM
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For the last 41 days, a Twitch user named Mosheddy has been persistently harassing a streamer named Tanya DePass.…
7/13/18 7:00PM
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One week ago, two Guild Wars 2 narrative designers, Jessica Price and Peter Fries, were fired after Price called…
6/27/18 6:14PM
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Overwatch players needed something to incentivize good sportsmanship and, yesterday, they got it. Blizzard’s latest O…