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The Gamergate controversy concerned an online harassment campaign, primarily conducted through the use of the hashtag #GamerGate, that centered on issues of sexism and anti-progressivism in video game culture. Gamergate is used as a blanket term for the controversy as well as for the harassment campaign and actions of those participating in it. Gamertag Generator. Wondering what your gamertag should be? Or at least, resemble? Well, then you've come to the right place! Take this quiz for some inspiration and go back to playing your game!

Until recently, you might have lived a life blissfully unaware of the online #Gamergate movement. But last week, computing giant Intel pulled its ads from an independent game-development site thanks to the gaming lobby. Now that major companies are taking sides, it's time to figure it out. Let us be your guides.

What is #Gamergate?

R/kotakuinaction2: This sub is dedicated to promoting ethics in journalism, and opposing censorship and political correctness. KotakuInAction is the main hub for GamerGate on Reddit and welcomes discussion of community, industry and media issues in gaming and broader nerd culture including science fiction and comics. GamerGate is a label for a series of controversies in the gaming industry that occurred during the second half of 2014. Beginning in August of 2014, a series of controversies erupted, with one side accusing the other of breach of journalism ethics, and the other side accusing the instigators of misogyny and sexism.

'#GamerGate' is an online movement ostensibly concerned with ethics in game journalism and with protecting the 'gamer' identity.

'Ostensibly'?

Even regarded generously, Gamergate isn't much more than a tone-deaf rabble of angry obsessives with a misguided understanding of journalistic ethics. But there are a lot of reasons not to regard the movement generously.

How did Intel get itself involved?

Filezilla download mac os x 10.10. Intel removed its ads last week from Gamasutra, a niche website for video game developers, at the behest of #Gamergate, which took particular offense to an article by journalist Leigh Alexander arguing that 'gamers,' in the traditional sense, are becoming irrelevant as 'angry young men' grow up and the medium evolves to include new audiences.

Abbyy finereader 11 professional edition serial key free download. That article is over a month old, though.

Right. #Gamergate actually began in August as a pernicious attack on one female game developer, Zoe Quinn, and her sex life.

Quinn has been the victim of death threats and harassment since she began trying to publish Depression Quest, a text-based game partially based on her own experience with depression, in 2013. Last month, the New Yorker attempted to explain why Quinn and her game inspire such outrage among gamers —Depression Quest is not a 'real game,' it's 'just words,' its portrayal of depression is too personal to be relatable—but it's hard not to look at the last several weeks of chatter in the gaming community and not come to the conclusion that it's about the fact that she's a woman.

Why do you say that?

The harassment against her reached a fever pitch in August after an ex-boyfriend, Eron Gjoni, wrote a series of blog posts alleging that Quinn had cheated on him with five other men, some of whom worked in games or games journalism.

In gamer social media circles, a conspiracy immediately took root: Quinn had definitely fucked those five guys, gamers decided (they even turned it into a joke about the burger chain) and she'd done it to get publicity for her games.

Quinn's address and phone number were made public shortly afterward, and the threats against her became so intense that she left her house and started couch-surfing. Last week, the New York Times reported she hasn't been back since.

So Intel pulled its ads from Gamasutra because of a bunch of people attacking a woman after her boyfriend claimed she'd cheated on him?

Well, not quite. In September, the attacks on Quinn coalesced into an organized campaign, coordinated on 4chan, Reddit, YouTube and in various IRC channels. Gamers came to a consensus that publicly harassing a woman over her sex life was a bad look. They quickly pivoted to focus on corruption in games journalism.

They started with Kotaku writer Nathan Grayson, one of the alleged 'five guys,' who stood accused of writing positively about Quinn while engaged in a sexual relationship with her.

But Grayson never reviewed Depression Quest. He once wrote half a sentence about the game, before his relationship with Quinn ever started, but that's it. Critics of Quinn and Grayson have also raised concerns about this Kotaku article—it was written before they started dating.

Despite numerous news sources, including Kotaku itself, debunking the existence of any review, some gamers continue to trot it out as an example of journalistic corruption months later.

(Kotaku and Gawker are sister sites, both owned by Gawker Media LLC.)

Surely the gaming community is not entirely made up of misogynists and angry idiots?

Near the end of August, a significant chunk of the gaming press declared itselffed up with the type of gamer who would make threats against Quinn and other prominent women in games, including controversial feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian.

'There has been so much hate. So many angry words, so many accusations, over..what? Video games? Women in video games? People who write about video games? It would be absurd if it hadn't forced people out of their homes for fear of their personal safety,' wrote Kotaku's Luke Plunkett.

A number of sites took the opportunity to write about a demographic change in the gaming community: The death of the 'gamer,' essentially. Headlines like 'The End of Gamers,' 'Gamers' Are Over,' and 'We Might Be Witnessing the Death of an Identity' appeared on game news sites.

We Might Be Witnessing The 'Death of An Identity'

I've been working at Kotaku for nearly eight years now, and while I've seen some online…

Is that where the hashtag/name #Gamergate came in?

Yes: The #Gamergate movement was born—borrowing a hashtag coined by conservative Firefly actor Adam Baldwin—in response to this widespread repudiation of the term 'gamer' and the scummy layer of misogyny it had picked up.

You said #Gamergate participants believe they're fighting for video game journalism ethics.

Right. #Gamergate participants believe that game journalism has been corrupted—there are too many writers who maintain friendships or other close relationships with game developers. Chokher bali full movie download kickass torrent.

Never mind for now that the game developers who are most often complained about are people like Zoe Quinn—independent, crowd-funded, and frequently from underrepresented identity groups—#Gamergate's mission (publicly, anyway) is to convince games writers to adopt the same ethical standards as 'real journalists.'

What does that mean?

It's never been clear what that would mean. That's because #Gamergate has never really been about ethics, although some sincere participants have taken up that discussion.

Chat logs released soon after the 'Five Guys scandal' broke reveal the movement was focused on destroying Zoë Quinn first, reforming games reporting second.

Amid discussing the size, shape and smell of Quinn's vagina and what to do with leaked nude photos of her, plotters from various 4chan message boards drop gems like 'i couldnt care less about vidya, i just want to see zoe receive her comeuppance.'

From another conversation:

'I kind of want to just make her life irrepairably [sic] horrible …'

'but what if she suicides …'

'Good.'

Eventually, (slightly) cooler heads prevailed, and the trolls who would soon form #Gamergate shifted their goal from destroying Zoë Quinn to something ostensibly about journalistic ethics.

'The more you try to attack her directly, the more she gets to play the victim card and make a bunch of friends who will support her because, since she has a vagina, any attack is misgony [sic],' one of them reasoned.

So the ethics complaints are a red herring?

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