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Brianna Wu speaks up about death threats and personal cost of opposing...
EXCLUSIVE: Disclosure: The International Mobile Gaming Awards paid my way to Marseille, France, to judge the event. My coverage remains objective. Brianna Wu has been labeled a “social justice...
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Brianna Wu’s Giant Spacekat pulls out of PAX East, blames GamerGate death...
Brianna Wu, the cofounder of game studio Giant Spacekat, said she has decided to pull her team out of the PAX East gaming convention because of specific ongoing death threats from supporters of...
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Game developers favor Steam and PC over other platforms
Click here for all of GameBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. About 75 percent of game developers say that Steam and the PC platform is “very important” for the future of the game...
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Zoe Quinn and other female game developers speak out against harassment
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — Before a crowded room of their peers today, four women from the game industry stood up and spoke out about...
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Intel aims to double the number of women in gaming
Building on Intel’s diversity announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the world’s biggest chip maker announced that it will work with the International Game Developers Association...
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Independent Games Festival host denounces Internet hate and Gamergate, gets...
Nathan Vella got a standing ovation tonight at the close of the Independent Games Festival, the awards show for indie games at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. He did so by denouncing...
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The DeanBeat: The game industry’s struggle with light and darkness
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — Today is the last day of the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and my old bones are weary...
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Massachusetts congresswoman urges FBI to take Gamergate seriously
The Federal Bureau of Investigation isn’t doing its job when it comes to handling online threats — that’s how Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) feels. The U.S. representative issued a letter to...
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Game of Thrones’ Arya and Sansa Stark on Gamergate: Don’t feed the trolls
EXCLUSIVE: SAN FRANCISCO — As young women immersed in social media, Game of Thrones actresses Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner — who play, respectively, Arya and Sansa Stark — know there is a lot of...
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Feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian is only game person on Time’s top 100
Time named Anita Sarkeesian, a critic of the game industry’s depiction of women, as one of its top 100 most influential people in the world today. She appears on the list along side tech leaders Tim...
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Gamergate’s positive effect: We’re now talking about diversity
VB EVENT: The writer of this story has previously been a member of the IGDA. He no longer is. –Ed. Click here for all of our GamesBeat Summit coverage. SAUSALITO, Calif — The effects of Gamergate took...
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Developer Zoë Quinn sells the movie rights to her ‘Crash Override’ Gamergate...
A group of disgruntled reactionaries tried to strike her down, but they only ended up making her more powerful. Pascal Pictures has purchased the movie rights to Depression Quest developer Zoë Quinn’s...
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The DeanBeat: What’s game journalism’s next move?
I’ve been watching game journalists lose their jobs. I’m sorry for my colleagues, and I hope they find a way to stay in this wonderful industry. I’ve had a chance to cover games for 25 years. I hope...
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Nintendo insists that Paper Mario: Color Splash joke wasn’t about Gamergate...
Nintendo has found itself in another controversy, but the company is claiming innocence. During the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week, Nintendo streamed gameplay demos and more via...
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Ashley Judd scorches the game industry for profiting from misogyny
Actress Ashley Judd made news today at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., for her performance that skewered President Donald Trump. But she also gave another recent heated speech at a TED...
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Brianna Wu appalled at FBI’s #GamerGate investigative report
The Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed a heavily redacted report on its investigation into the #GamerGate controversy, where female game developers and critics received multiple death threats for...
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The DeanBeat: Farewell to #Gamergate
The #Gamergate controversy began in August 2014, when a former boyfriend of game developer Zoë Quinn shared a long post about their relationship, one that included a description of an affair she...
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Indie game leader Rami Ismail condemns harassment that shut down Spanish...
A group called Gaming Ladies scheduled a women’s gaming event in Barcelona, Spain, but the event’s sponsor, King, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, decided to shut down the gathering this week due to...
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The DeanBeat: Intel’s 2014 Gamergate mistake paved the path for Google’s memo...
Google is going through the throes of a diversity controversy over its firing of James Damore, the white man who wrote a diversity memo that created a firestorm and got him fired from his job at...
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Esports’ future is female
GUEST: The esports industry is one of the fastest growing segments in sports and entertainment, on pace to generate as much as $5 billion in revenue by 2020 — and advertisers obviously want in. One of...
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Inside one developer’s quest to make gaming a better place for women
GUEST: Men dominate the video game industry, as they have for most of its history. But perhaps as a result of the perpetual spotlight that has been shone on the issue of gender equality in the games...
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The DeanBeat: Our growing piles of video game shame
My Cuphead social storm lasted about eight days. During that time, gamers near and far criticized me for playing a demo of the upcoming video game Cuphead so poorly. I’m still absorbing the lessons of...
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EA exec Peter Moore blasts fans who spread hate on women soccer players in...
Electronic Arts chief operating officer Peter Moore said he was sad to see the “misogynistic vitriol” following the EA Sports announcement today that the upcoming FIFA 16 game will include female...
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Game Boss interview: How Zoe Quinn survived Gamergate and lived to fight...
In August 2014, Zoe Quinn found herself under the Eye of Sauron. The reference to J.R.R. Tolkien’s evil character with a searing, burning eye is an apt way to describe the Internet haters that came...
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Game Boss interview: Zoe Quinn’s Crash Override Network fights online abuse
As we noted in part one of our interview, Zoe Quinn endured an appalling amount of Internet hatred related to the Gamergate controversy. In response, she wrote a book Crash Override, chronicling how...
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The DeanBeat: ArenaNet’s disaster sends shock waves into gaming
I was on vacation last week, hanging out with my extended family and playing a few games on my aging iPhone 6, my Nintendo Switch, and the Oculus Go. I was ready to write about that vacation gaming for...
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Worst of 2014: 5 trends that tried to spoil gaming
FEATURE: You have to take the good with the bad. In gaming, that means you can have your Dragon Age: Inquisition, but you’re also going to have some crashing bugs as well. We had plenty of bad stuff...
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The video game industry must stand up against the right’s bad-faith attacks
The video game industry will continue to fail in the political arena as long as it is terrified to say it is deliberately being targeted by Republicans.Read More
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Sexual abuse allegations rock the game industry again
The game industry reached a new boiling point this week as scores of people in the game industry made allegations of sexual assault, rape, and harassment.Read More
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