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Smutley said:
It's funny you mention that, because I just read the most interesting of articles.

http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/20...ay-we-are-journalists-says-destructoid-owner/

According to this journalist, people in high up positions on gaming websites colluded to blackball a writer who supported gamergate from being able to be hired. Now, this heavily involves Destructoid who are trying to claim that none of that is true because they are innocent bloggers run out of some guys kitchen and anyway that's just an industry trade forum where professionals network.

The writer who was fired resided in Florida, where this is considered "conspiring" and is legally a very bad thing.

So there you go, journalists are illegally being blackballed from their industry for speaking against the wishes of their conspiring masters.
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*sigh* You used to be my favorite video game site when I was in High School, Destructoid. How far you've fallen. Guess I should've seen that coming though, they almost always got stuff from publishers, but at least they showed it off, unlike many of the other websites that I'm sure got promotional items.
 
You know, at first I was kind disappointed that all of the websites I used to enjoy two or so years ago started to come out against gamergate or otherwise have their shadier dealings come to light. But then I realized that they were just showing their true colors, and for the past two years I've been relying on youtube videos to decide what games to buy because they are both more entertaining and informative than the gaming "journalists".
 
Gothicserpent said:
Gameinformer is Anti-Gamergate. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/10/20/game-informer-on-gamergate.aspx
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Game Informer has never been relevant. Even in the 90s it was essentially birdcage liner. Every other gaming mag laughed at it.

I do like that they alienated about a third of their limited readerbase with nonsense like this, though. Well-done, Game Informer. When it comes to being a disappointment, you never disappoint.

Whatisgoingon said:
You know, at first I was kind disappointed that all of the websites I used to enjoy two or so years ago started to come out against gamergate or otherwise have their shadier dealings come to light. But then I realized that they were just showing their true colors, and for the past two years I've been relying on youtube videos to decide what games to buy because they are both more entertaining and informative than the gaming "journalists".
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I realized like back in 1995, maybe 1996, that the magazine-based gaming press was going to soon be a thing of the past - it was slowly becoming irrelevant thanks to the Information Superhighway. We had GameFAQs out there, online communities dedicated to figuring out everything about games. But whilst that was true, I don't think any of us really realized just how ridiculous the situation was going to get. I mean, we've had agenda-driven reviews before, we've had things like the Kane and Lynch scandal, but I'm at best reasonably sure that nobody expected out-and-out McCarthyism over consumer advocacy, or the fucking Bizarro World scenario we have going on right now.
 
Batman VS Tony Danza said:
It wasn't the Path of Neo. It was.. Enter the Matrix or something? You play as two smaller characters from the series. Ghost and someone else, I think.
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Oh yeah, that one. Enter The Matrix where you play as Ghost and Niobe (Will Smith's wife), it was pretty shite.

Good call.
 
My, those 350 people have been super busy!

http://keyhole.co/realtime/rSOy0k/Gamergate

TL;DR: the last week on #GG. Have a snapshot.

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Jaimas said:
Game Informer has never been relevant. Even in the 90s it was essentially birdcage liner. Every other gaming mag laughed at it.

I do like that they alienated about a third of their limited readerbase with nonsense like this, though. Well-done, Game Informer. When it comes to being a disappointment, you never disappoint.
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Sad thing is that I think 99% of their readerbase only get game Informer because it comes free (for a year) with a gamestop power card. Without gamestop, Game Informer would be dead already. Still can't believe that GI out live Nintendo Power, EGM, Tip & Tricks and etc.
 
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Good morning Kiwis! Lots of stuff to discuss.

First up, Milo discusses us "winning", which is nice and cheap but it turns out he's gotten anonymous execs at Intel, Mercedes and a AAA gaming company to comment on Gamergate and the results WILL SURPRISE YOU (so does his random digs at feminists, which I'm not too keen on, but what can you do?)

There's the Intel vice president who told me via email that GamerGate was "doing great work" and that he was "sick of slander and self-loathing from the press". He was talking about male journalists who do misandrist feminists' work for them.

"I am pressing that team, it's not mine, but I am exerting influence when I can, to stop spending money with people who hate themselves and hate our clients," he added by phone later.
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Then consider the product manager, who was happy to be identified as "senior management at a German car manufacturer", who told me that, "the violence against women is unacceptable and we cannot support it, but we will not financially support people who insult our customers either".

The manager told me: "We would prefer not to make headlines like Intel. But you should expect to see strategic changes in how we spend in coming years. It is very much an open question inside the company and we are watching closely."
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Next up, Adland.tv's Dabitch (the art director / founder of the site) pens another spot on article about how attacking and vilifyiong your customer base under the pretense of Moral Panic loses you money and actively costs women jobs. This is a powerful read, and honestly made my blood boil that shit like this has happened, and that it is continuing to happen.

Comics by Gilbert Hernandez, Altan, Art Spiegelman, Rick Geary, Bill Griffith, Neil Gaiman andfeminist underground comic queen Dori Seda were painted in the press as sexually deviant, morally abhorrent, misogynistic violence propaganda, which of course would only ruin our children. Comics were terrible for women too, and the industry itself was painted as awful since the small market of Sweden only had a handful of women working in the industry. This sounds familiar, doesn't it? So while the press rallied around the topic, because if it bleeds it leads in yellow journalism even back then, upstanding citizens including uniformed police officerstook it upon themselves to go around shops and ask them to stop selling these comic books. An innocent man, also named Horst Schröder, lost clients to his riding school because people thought he was the bad pornography-peddling Epix-förlag owner. [...]
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Dabitch is a long time gamer and artist, and the more I read about her the cooler I think she is. This is also her tagline on articles

I'm Dabitch, I'm #notyourshield, and I'm going to a halloween-party dressed as Vivian James. Tack till Sundblom, for the scanned cover of Pox magazine
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Late last night I stumbled across a post titled "The 9 Golden Rules for Dealing With Bad Publicity". This isn't something that's related to Gamergate, but it's something every single gaming site, and the Vox and Gawker media empires, should have familiarized themselves with. Christopher Jones, the author, makes some wonderful points about repairing your damaged brand. If only the Max Reads and Leigh Alexanders of the world could stop huffing their own military grade jenkem and pay attention to someone else for a second.

Rule #1: Leave the internet bear alone.

Chances are good that there’s a restaurant like Amy’s Baking Company in every city. So why did Amy’s Bakery become the poster child for bad restaurant behavior and not the mediocre Italian place down my block? It poked the internet bear. You must never, ever poke the internet bear. It’s an angry, relentless beast, and it’s flanked by an army of users who can send you negative messages, share their frustrations with peers, and do so with virtually no ramifications—and often anonymously. The internet bear does not sleep…it waits. So, avoid any possibility of falling in its cross-hairs. The most surefire way to have this happen is to fight it head on. Don’t respond to criticism with posts in ALL CAPS, or using profanity. Don’t try to out-insult those who insult you. Don’t argue. Your best bet is to apologize and move on—or don’t engage at all. Which brings me to our next rule…
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Haha, jesus, they could have just done Rule #1, every one of them, and been much better off for it.

Lastly, I'll leave you guys with some allegations about Gone Home being friends with reviewers to receive a 10/10 from Polygon

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Mechanism Eight said:
More lies?
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Does data lie? I don't know, although I seriously doubt Keyhole's ability to tell whether the poster is male or female. 28,500 users is still awesome.

13% of last week's tweets were sent from California, 10% from Texas. :\
 
This just in: Chris "Make fun of Sandusky's victims" Kluwe is a namecalling bully. Who would have thought a football player was anything else? No nerds in high school, ever.

Oh, well, keep trying to be relevant now that you aren't getting a million dollars a year to kick a ball three or four times a week for four months a year.
 
Pickle Man said:
Sad thing is that I think 99% of their readerbase only get game Informer because it comes free (for a year) with a gamestop power card. Without gamestop, Game Informer would be dead already. Still can't believe that GI out live Nintendo Power, EGM, Tip & Tricks and etc.
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If it makes you feel any better, EGM still does exist. The original owners re-bought the name from Ziff Davis and have been running since 2010. Actually picked up an issue from them a few months ago. Their new site is egmnow.com

As for Game Informer... I actually have a digital subscription to them and... honestly the last time I think I looked at one was back when the PS4 was officially announced. Basically got the subscription with my Gamestop Players Club thing (which I can't knock, since its benefits allowed me to buy an HexBawx One with Kinect for $250).

Oh right, need to stay on topic... hmmm... ah!
 
kcbbq said:
This just in: Chris "Make fun of Sandusky's victims" Kluwe is a namecalling bully. Who would have thought a football player was anything else? No nerds in high school, ever.

Oh, well, keep trying to be relevant now that you aren't getting a million dollars a year to kick a ball three or four times a week for four months a year.
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Someone was hurt in high school.

Gothicserpent said:
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Shame to see Joss Whedon lower himself to commenting on this.
 
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