This is the best article on GamerGate I've read, acknowledging the complexity of all online and offline movements and showing respect for both sides.

Thanks for sharing, Metal. There's a lot of truth in those words.

From the site in question, under the heading

"Join the host of Mordor, they said... It's an Uruk's life, they said..."

One more here! I think we're just quiet about it. The Gawker network isn't always the most welcoming place, though Kotuka is usually pretty good about it. Everyone loves games, regardless of their background.

Coders and VG artists do free work all the time. The modding community is in essence creating new content for games for free, without expectation of getting paid. The value of the game goes up, because, hey, new free content! Yet they don't expect a dime. In fact, some do this precisely for the exposure that these…

The Scythian from Sword and Sworcery/Mona Lisa! For all my dislike of that game I still find this genius!

This...

Wow that was kind of depressing... I do feel bad for the guy. He made a game that a ton of people loved and a ton of people hated and that sorta ruined his life. Interesting to see that success isn't all it's cracked up to be, but we should never discourage devs from making games.

Making it a utility seems like a bad idea. Ever dealt with PG&E? I think government-enforced internet monopolies is step down from what we've got now. Seriously, people, Google Fiber is only a few years away. Things aren't at their best right now but they're going to get better.

Second, for good or ill, Flappy Bird had become controversial. Last week, my fellow reporters and I noticed some chatter on Twitter about how the game and Nguyen's other titles had suddenly risen in popularity. We saw people suggesting that Nguyen may have used bots—computer programs that would repeatedly download…

I clicked on the link and I had heard the allegation before, but I'm not quite convinced its a complete rip off of Piou Piou. Copter-style games have been around so long that it's now a genre, and it just makes sense to make a bird-based one. Yes, it does look bad with both featuring a yellow bird, but with the…

His assets weren't stolen, just imitated. Yes, the green pipes are iconic Mario symbols, but he made those assets himself. There is a bit of difference here that he isn't just copying a general art style but a specific object, but he hasn't broken any laws or copyrights. Should he have used something else? Yeah, he…

Well plenty of people think sending him hate messages on twitter is a proper response to this, and they're absolutely wrong. And bragging? He revealed his income in an interview with The Verge when asked about it and not to taunt people on twitter. From reading his twitter feed, he seemed both bewildered and humble…

Is this seriously what we want? Game developers being tormented by both success and hate to the point of taking their games down or leaving the industry? Between this and Phil Fish, I'd say this is becoming a habit in the gaming community. We should comment on the quality and originality of his games, but…

Tails looked pretty good, I thought.

Well, if anyone deserves a little marketing, it would be him. I really should buy PewPew 2 sometime...

Also free with no ads! It's the only mobile game I play on any regular basis.

I feel the same way! They just don't "get" me anymore... I have so much childhood nostalgia invested in Nintendo's eventual downfall and the articles on how to fix it but now I just sigh when the next generation of Nintendo complaints roll in. I want to be in their market again, but they really need to innovate.

Five years later, enter Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift, a game with a dumb title and an equally dumb premise—school kid gets detention; finds magical book; teleports into fantasy world where he is suddenly an expert fighter and monster hunter. This is why you should never judge a video game by its name…