Author’s Note: It’s an ugly time to like video games right now. Recently, there have been campaigns of vitriolic hate and harassment against women critics, game developers, and their allies on some prominent corners of the internet. Games writing and the new wave of indie development along with it feels under siege to a lot […]
Game Over, Man: #Gamergate, 4Chan, and the Power of Trolls
So this has been a surreal weekend in my corner of the world. If you have any contact with the part of reality that a video game writer lives in (on Twitter, mostly, let’s be honest), you’ve heard of “#Gamergate,” the movement debate conflagration that has exploded over the past couple of weeks and paralyzed […]