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Gamergate

June 2024

  • A screenshot from Alan Wake 2

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Are we experiencing Gamergate 2.0?

    A decade after the original Gamergate movement, Chanté Joseph talks to the Guardian’s video game editor Keza McDonald and Ash Parrish, a video game reporter for The Verge about what’s changed in the industry and why some believe we’re seeing a resurgence of this online hate campaign

April 2024

  • Seduction machine … Jodie Tyack and Tom Kay as Denyse and Jake in Banging Denmark.

    Banging Denmark review – misogynist podcaster meets feminist scholar

    Channeling the Gamergate saga and the world of the online pickup artist, Van Badham’s disturbingly timely play offers dark laughs and rewarding nuance

March 2024

  • Keza MacDonald

    It’s 10 years since Gamergate – the industry must now stand up to far-right trolls

    Keza MacDonald
    Conspiracy theorists are still routinely targeting and abusing women and ‘woke’ game consultants. With a small studio currently under fire, the games industry’s silence is deafening

November 2022

  • Super Mario has been the victim of a Twitter Blue prankster.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: If Twitter breaks down, the games industry won’t ever be the same

    Plenty of games have found real-world success through viral fame on the platform. But can gaming Twitter survive Elon Musk?

December 2021

  • Power up … welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian’s gaming newsletter from Keza MacDonald.

    Pushing Buttons newsletter
    Pushing Buttons: gaming is culture – even Fortnite has something to say about society

    In the first edition of our gaming newsletter: why games, like all art, have the power to connect, entertain and cause change

August 2019

  • A man's hands type on a laptop

    The Guardian view on Gamergate: when hatred escaped

    Editorial: Five years after an online movement based on male rage started, its destructive effects have leached into our politics and daily lives

May 2019

  • Keza MacDonald

    We’ve seen Carl Benjamin’s rank misogyny before – remember Gamergate?

    Keza MacDonald
    The sexist abuse women reported in 2014 has engulfed public life, says Keza MacDonald, video games editor at the Guardian

January 2019

  • ‘One day I woke up and I was a socialist. They tricked me!’ ... Harry Brewis.

    'Success would’ve been three grand': meet the gamer who raised $340,000 for a trans charity

  • Harry Brewis, who goes by Hbomberguy, playing Donkey Kong 64

    How a 57-hour Donkey Kong game struck a blow against online toxicity

    Tom Hawking

April 2018

  • Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts in Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg.

    Now you've seen it
    Ready Player One – do you buy Spielberg's vision of virtual reality? Discuss with spoilers

    The director has received positive reviews for his first sci-fi movie in over a decade. But do you find his digital wonderland convincing or overly corporate?

January 2018

  • Keza MacDonald

    The video games industry isn’t yet ready for its #MeToo moment

    Keza MacDonald
    There are good reasons why few women in the industry have spoken out, says the Guardian’s video games editor Keza MacDonald

October 2017

  • Anita Sarkeesian … ‘Online harassment is very easily done and there are very few consequences for it.’

    Anita Sarkeesian: ‘It’s frustrating to be known as the woman who survived #Gamergate’

    The critic was viciously targeted by trolls after speaking out about sexist tropes in video games. She explains how she is still fighting to change the industry and writing a book celebrating women overlooked by history

September 2017

  • Zoe Quinn speaks during “ The First Amendmant Resistance” panel during the BookExpo 2017 at Javits Center on June 1, 2017 in New York City.

    Zoe Quinn: after Gamergate, don't 'cede the internet to whoever screams the loudest'

    In the same way we wouldn’t expect a woman to prevent street harassment by never leaving her house, in her new book, Quinn argues we cannot advise people to prevent online threats by just staying offline

August 2017

  • Cyber Security Concerns In The Global Wake of Hacking Threat<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 09: In this photo illustration, The Google logo is projected onto a man on August 09, 2017 in London, England. Founded in 1995 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google now makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Smartbox and Google Search. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    Google cancels staff meeting after Gamergate-style attack on employees

    Firing of James Damore, engineer behind controversial diversity memo, sparks ire from ‘alt-right’ reminiscent of 2014 Gamergate harassment campaign

May 2017

  • A man hides his face behind a Pepe the Frog sign after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spoke at an airport campaign rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. October 30, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

    Chips with Everything
    The 'alt-right' approach to disrupting the media – tech podcast

    A new report takes a nuanced look at some of the behaviours and cultural norms surrounding the nascent Internet-based far-right group

January 2017

  • Chelsea, who makes her living by gaming at home on Twitch

    The women who make a living gaming on Twitch

    ‘There’s definitely like, a secret girls’ club,’ and women say they need it in the male-dominated gamer world

December 2016

  • Laptop use<br>Man typing on a laptop.

    What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'

    The 2014 online hate-storm presaged the tactics of the Trump-loving far right movement. Prominent critics of the president elect should take note

July 2016

  • Milo Yiannopoulos is a journalist, broadcaster and internet blogger who speaks about technology, media, business, society, religion and celebrity culture . He is Editor-in-Chief of The Kernel, chief feature writer for The Catholic Herald . Milo Yiannopoulos is photographed in Old Street Silicon roundabout in north London.

    Milo Yiannopoulos: Twitter banning one man won’t undo his poisonous legacy

  • Milo Yiannopoulos said the move to ban him would win him ‘more adoring fans’.

    Milo Yiannopoulos, rightwing writer, permanently banned from Twitter

May 2016

  • Melissa McCarthy and Leslie Jones in Ghostbusters (2016).

    The Ghostbusters trashing is just another internet tantrum against change

    Laurie Penny
    Organised troll-reviewing of the remake’s trailer is inevitable, but it won’t stop the thrilling transformation in pop culture that is finally taking place
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