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THIC FAIL-SHADY GAMES JOURNALISM S.GD/GGQUICK QUICK & DIRTY Ad-supported revenue models strongly encourage bad journalism. Be the first to report, write frequent low-effort articles rather than few well-researched ones, jump on views-generating scandals. Maximize clicks. But poor journalism can backfire hard, leading to huge mistakes, and, sometimes, even g innocent people's lives. It's not a mystery that reviewers frequent- to good example being the 2008 IGN review FOOTBALL Despite being a well-received entry in MANAGER the established sports management se- ries, with a very positive vote even from IGN's UK branch, the game received an unprecedented 2/10 slating from IGN's US peared clearly unaquainted with the gen- IS.GD/GGSIMCITY Evolution and lamenting that "apart from managing your roster and c team" Football Manger 2009 didn't offer Simcity 2013 also go any gameplay. The review wasp t perplaxingly ty reviews from major sites an A similiar situation involved Eurogam- er and another 2/10 score, awarded to MMORPG DarkFall Online-whose view, stating that not only the reviewer's account had clocked just two hours, but he had spent the majority of them creat ing new characters rather than playing. ur cused the devs of lying. While the outlet did release a second review, the majority of it was spent just discussing the back- lash and implying that the original review was legitimate, while Darkfall devs and IS.GD/GGDORITOS r defended Zitron, but didn't do the same for Rab Florence nal reviews author, contributor Ed Zitron, never wrote for Eurogamer again. was in 2012, when an edited image from 4chan por traying three fake upcoming Playstation Vita titles The news was picked up by Joystiq, Gamespot and IGN, which alsoran with it.While these outlets soon edited their articles acknowleding the hoax, Kota- ku's Jason Schreier initially refused to admit he had been fooled, dismissing evidence present- IS.GD/GGSECRETS himself in the center of a multi-forum arguement, g users of various forums of insulting him and lying, dismissing their argue- ments as "ol game journalism" insults and ban- ning users from Kotaku, he eventually apologized. impropriety-rich lournoPros mailing s Bad journalism is not often something this funny-its consequences are usually much more dramatic. Stardock's CEO, 2 Brad Wardell, has felt them personally Within days of the article hitting, forum posts, follow-up articles and abuse started flooding the net. I received numerous death threats including one so specific (it was clear they had driven up close to our house) that we called the police. The death threats included r--- threats against my wife and disgusting vile threats against my children. For the past two years since, not a week goes by where someone doesnt send me a hate message (... Primarly known for his stance against such as Sins of a Solar Empire, War dell had a in 2012, wrote about two ongoing law- suits between his company and a former was hostile work environment, sexual har assment and battery,and Kotaku report- ed her allegations in detail, without any Wardell had not Wardell was also accused of having coun- right before le the c IS.GD/GGSECRETS taliation for the harassment suit. The Kotaku article had a large echo, and at Penny Arcade report, wrote about it, Kuchera and Fudge were also in as did 4 James Fudge, of Gamepolitics The lawsuits were settled in 2013, with the sexual harassment suit dismissed with prejudice and the to to Wardell for filing her suit and destroying Stardock propriety as condition for the settlement As Wardell stated, though, "Any time I speak on a given topic, this comes up". In September 2014, for- mer Bioware up the Kotaku accusations in his blog, but, after more research and being shown more documents by Wardell, he issued an apology, con- Polygon ku for "s----- journalism". The doc uments he had seen showed that Kotaku had re- ported the date of Stardock's allegedly-retaliatory lawsuit wrong by a full year. Wardell had been giv- en mere hours to comment, and the employee's nePolitics s had been la out of c Shortly after this, Fudge also offered his"long over due" apology for his article Kotaku's "s----- journalism has not yet stopped haunting Wardell, though. Just two months later he, as he habitually does, encouraged someone on Twitter to send Star- dock a resumé. Wardell was unaware that this person had made a crude, already re- moved, cartoon, and was viciously attacked by a controversy-hungry minor indie dev and her followers-who, again, brought against him the false and well-debunked sexual Despite his personal misadventures with it, Wardell has been extremely moderate in his He has criticized individual writers-such as Ben Kuchera, whose double standards brought him to advocate for censorship of a game journalism sex scandal with the mo- tivation of "harassment", after a pivotal role in spreading slander on Wardell-or events such as the anti-consumer "Gamers are dead" articles, but he seems to still hope that there's salvation for an industry tainted by "poor choices made by a few, believing that The average gaming journalist has immense integrity" and that most of them would a bribe or writing something intentionally biased IS.GD/GGHAND IS.GD/GGKOTAKU Kotaku is not infamous just for bad but c Despite Wardell's positivity, though, game journalism's already-abysmal reputation is constantly worsening, with increasingly large scandals hitting the troubled industry, as detailed, among others, by the now-numerous Ethic Fail infographs Wardell's story, and several similar ones surfacing, should serve as a reminder of the im- portance of journalistic integrity-the most efficient answer to the continusly-escalating criticism of the gaming press. As Wardell says himself, "The media should acknowledge that there's a problem and that their customers are getting fed up with it ALL IMAGES IS.GD/GGINFO ALL SOURCES IS.GD/ETHICFAIL

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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