It’s not shady at all unless she can produce evidence that she asked for and he agreed for her email to be off the record. Standard journalistic practice in every single industry. She knew she was talking to a journalist, and as the head of a foundation like this, she’s dealt with the press before and knows how this…

Short version: yes. A lot of misogynists think feminism has ruined society because women getting more rights has altered the playing field in ways that they feel has disadvantaged them as men. As a generalized example, a straight woman is no longer dependent on her husband to provide for her and thus is choosier about…

And this has to do with a midlevel marketing team member how?

“That doesn’t make any fucking sense at all.”

Totally agreed. “Ethics in games journalism” was a fig leaf from the beginning. The absolute proof of that is that, even if you assume that the “Five Guys” document is all true (quite a stretch but bear with me), the ethical violation was committed by the *journalists*, who could most favorably be described as…

they see any attempts to make video games more inclusive— and, by extension, less offensive and marginalizing to certain groups of people— as tyrannical overreach and creatively stifling. and you know what? there might be a point to be made here if it was anything but another hamfisted attempt to roll back the…

It makes perfect sense within their mindset. There’s two things at play here: 1) they firmly believe that the “other side” is full of liars, hypocrites, and nitpicking moral scolds who take things out of context purely as an underhanded debate tactic, so (they think) it’s perfectly OK if GG does it, too - ya know,…

GamerGate was started as a smoke screen to cover for the attacks against Quinn.

“And the result was dragon age 3 which felt boring, unrealistic and stale. They basically removed everything regarding homophobia, racism etc. They made some Utopian fantasy world which just felt really boring”

Reddit has 36 million accounts (as of June 2015, so almost certainly more now). Congrats on your .13% of total accounts subscribing.

If niche game sales go down 5% they are not going to care because they are NICHE sales. A smaller niche market.

Nintendo is editing out sexualized fictional characters, particularly underage. Rapp’s entire essay from years ago is about protecting the sexualization of fictional character, particularly underage. Now, if you didn’t allow for the fact that she no say in the former AND don’t allow for the fact that people have…

So you really believe Nintendo is actively flushing money down the drain so they can retain a family friendly image? Ok.

You’re right, man. I heard that anyone who writes about pedophilia instantly becomes a danger to children. Like Bloody Mary but with molestation instead of an ax.

It’s a power trip, I think. Their lives are otherwise ignorable/forgettable so the only way they can put value to it is to try and ruin someone else.

Yeah, or they are in it because they want to use the gaming as excuse to cause missery for someone. :/

So Nintendo censors their games, in order to keep their family friendly image, and doing so directly hurts their sales? Why the fuck would they do that? Your argument makes literally no sense.

Another question is when the United States get so full of spoiled man-babies?

Sure, but you can’t blame this on Kotaku or any other games journalism site. It’s not Kotaku’s job to report on child sex abuse. Blame normal media outlets, or the public, or whoever.

As someone who used to butt heads quite frequently with GGers... for the most part, that’s exactly what they are. An amorphous, vile, spiteful, angry sack of shit collective.