Yiannopoulos is a particularly interesting case. Neither has any real history with video games or deep understanding of the issues that the industry and its journalists face, but both have a very real history of taking the side against wherever the feminist movement happens to be. It's hardly a surprise, then, that the movement has anointed some highly suspect heroes: far-right anti-feminist writers like the American Enterprise Institute's Christina Hoff Sommers and Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos. It seems to be deemed not exciting enough to raise Gamergate's hackles. ![]() Which highlights a core problem with the movement: When a legitimate corruption scandal not involving women, or feminism, or any real misogynist angle arises, it's more or less ignored. ![]() One YouTube gamer made a satirical video trying to highlight the issue. ![]() Giving small-ball independent reviewers free copies of a $60 game if they offered it praise seems like a very clear and serious case of corruption.īut there were no organized boycotts or campaigns against the game's producers, Monolith Productions and Warner Bros. The latest example of this is the paid branding for the popular "Lord of the Rings" game "Shadow of Mordor," where the publisher only allowed YouTubers who offered praise for the game to receive early review copies. A recurring theme of the Gamergate movement is that it's not about harassment or misogyny, and that the harassers are a minor fringe in the movement, or even false flag conspiracies by anti-Gamergate trolls.Īs I wrote last month, there is a serious ethics problem in video game journalism and the industry does need reforms.
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