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The studio hoped to talk about the development of Monster Hunter Wilds.

Capcom has canceled a planned lecture where they had hoped to talk about the optimization efforts made on Monster Hunter Wilds. The lecture, which would have taken place at CEDEC 2025 in Japan, was cancelled after Capcom staff received threats and other harassment over the current state of the game.

According to information gathered by Automaton, Capcom is set to hold several different sessions at...

A new "shield mode" is Twitch's latest effort to help stop harassment.

Twitch, the live streaming platform owned by Amazon, is again trying to curtail harassment campaigns that have been aptly named "hate raids." This is where some loser gets a large number of people to mass "attack" a target, usually a streamer that is actively streaming, with chat spam that typically consists of personal attacks, slurs, and even personal information.

The...

"100 days, zero demands met."

A new petition penned by current and former Ubisoft employees, under the collective name of ABetterUbisoft, has started to circulate after demands made back in August went ignored by upper management.

This new petition comes after Ubisoft management seemingly ignored an open letter that was written by the group back in August. That letter was signed by over 1,000 Ubisoft employees and offered support to the walkout and actions taken...

Yet another company with harassment issues.

It seems all too common these days: A widely regarded game studio is accused of gross sexual harassment that stretches across the entire company. Today, the studio in question is Rocksteady, the development studio responsible for the recent Batman: Arkham games.

According to a new report by The Guardian, female staff at Rocksteady had sent a letter to management back in 2018 complaining about sexual harassment. Allegedly, not...

This past Friday, former IGN editor (current GameSpot editor) Kallie Plagge revealed that she felt sexually harassed during her time working at IGN. Specifically, she says that was harassed back in 2016 by then editor Vince Ingenito. Not only was she harassed but she says that one other employee was also harassed.

Plagge's lengthy statement said that the harassment included "uncomfortable compliments" along with "manipulative and abusive comments." She says that Ingenito also...

This past Friday, former IGN editor (current GameSpot editor) Kallie Plagge revealed that she felt sexually harassed during her time working at...

Earlier today, the FBI released their report on the investigation into GamerGate. If nothing else, this should remove any remaining doubt that GamerGate began as a harassment campaign chiefly against women in the gaming industry, then against women in general, and then eventually against pretty much anybody that wasn't a straight, white male (though even they weren't excluded). The report is 173 pages long and contains all matter of threats, ranging from emails to tweets. It also inc...

Earlier today, the FBI released their report on the investigation into GamerGate. If nothing else, this should remove any remaining doubt that...

As part of a recent TED Talk about the abuse of women online, actor Ashley Judd dedicated a segment of her 15 minute talk towards the hypocrisy of the gaming industry. She began by talking about the abuse she endures every day online simply for being a woman. She explained the effects the abuse has had on her and offered up insight on the trauma many women endure every day online. Judd says that she has periodically been the target of a "cyber mob" that has sent her countless rape and death th...

As part of a recent TED Talk about the abuse of women online, actor Ashley Judd dedicated a segment of her 15 minute talk towards the hypocrisy...

Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, and Randi Harper were among a number of individuals that were brought in to speak to the United Nations this past week about online abuse and the harassment of women.

A few Tweets sent out by Google Ideas and Sarkeesian broke the news that this was happening (see bottom of this post).

The talk yesterday by the group of women begins around the 1:20:10 mark in the Launch of the Broadband Working Group on Gender Report by the UN. Part...

Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, and Randi Harper were among a number of individuals that were brought in to speak to the United Nations this past...

Following a couple of posts on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic forums, John Jarynowski found himself the victim of harassment from some irate fans. What did John do to anger people to the point that they doxed him, threatened him, and threatened his family? He just posted some information regarding what the combat team was or was not going to be working on for the Sentinel/Maruder classes. That was it. The series of events began when John posted a public thread talking about th...

Following a couple of posts on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic forums, John Jarynowski found himself the victim of harassment from some irate...