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Game developer Zoe Quinn sold the film rights to her upcoming memoir, Crash Override: How to Save the Internet From Itself, to Amy Pascal from Sony Pictures. Scarlett Johansson (among others) is allegedly already interested in portraying Quinn in the movie adaptation.
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Game developer Zoe Quinn sold the film rights to her upcoming memoir, Crash Override: How to Save the Internet From Itself, to Amy Pascal from...

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...

A Kickstarter funded project that aimed to document and detail the lives of many Indie developers was released today. It's called GameLoading: Rise of the Indie and is the result of three years of filming and interviews with people like John Romero (Doom), Davey Wreden (The Stanley Parable), Rami Ismail (studio Vlambeer), Zoe Quinn (Depression Quest), and more.

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A Kickstarter funded project that aimed to document and detail the lives of many Indie developers was released today. It's called GameLoading:...

These past few months, the harassment campaign known as GamerGate has been steadily attracting the attention of mainstream media outlets. It's long since ballooned past the point where only gaming focused outlets had something to say about them. We've seen attention brought against them on television shows like The Colbert Report and media outlets like The New York Times, CNN, and even Al Jazeera.

It has finally reached the point that even Law & Order: SVU (Special Victims...

These past few months, the harassment campaign known as GamerGate has been steadily attracting the attention of mainstream media outlets. It's...

Let's continue where I left off in "2014's Biggest Disappointments in the Gaming Industry - Part 1" from yesterday!

Xbox One Lacks a Screenshot Feature The Xbox One shipped with even fewer features than the PlayStation 4 did, but a lot of cool new features have been added to the system regularly throughout the year. However, it still lacks a feature that fans have wanted from the start: The ability to take screenshots. The system already has the ability to record short gameplay clips...

Between yesterday and today, word started to circulate that some unverified number of media outlets are preventing their employees from talking about #Gamergate in any way, shape, or form. At least one confirmation has come from the sea of rumors and it is for none other than The Escapist, home to Zero Punctuation and former residence of Jim Sterling whom has left to venture forth on his own. It was also the site where Ian Danskin used to be employed. Before we get into his reasons for leaving...

Brianna Wu, the founder of game developer Giant Spacekat, has been driven out of her home due to harassment and threats made to her online. The threats largely came from one online user that found her and her husband's home address and then proceeded to make some rather horrific threats towards Wu. Here are the Tweets sent to Wu last night from a now suspended Twitter account. I will say that if you don't like swearing or disturbing descriptions of violence, you shouldn't read this. ...

Brianna Wu, the founder of game developer Giant Spacekat, has been driven out of her home due to harassment and threats made to her online. The...

It's not often that I read something from either The Verge or Polygon and go, "wow, that is a fantastic piece of writing and I would like to share that with my readers!" Today is an exception brought on not only by necessity, not only due to the words of Frank Cifaldi, but because it's the right thing to do.

Back in August I put up a blog entry that, looking back on it now, completely misses the point as to what was going on. I had missed the points that Leigh Alexander...