There has been more text written about the controversy known as "GamerGate" than lines of dialogue in the newly released fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Inquisition. In fact, whether GamerGate ...

It began as an attempt to shut up one woman – a video-game developer who had criticized the entrenched sexism and misogyny in her industry – by “slut-shaming” her and then threatening her. As other ...

My colleague Erik Kain reports on the sadly abbreviated "SJP AirPlay", the oddly-titled event convened by the chair of the Society of Professional Journalists' Florida chapter to discuss how ...

If #Gamergate teaches us anything — beyond, of course, vastly obvious observations about the toxicity of certain Internet demographics (which is hardly new news) — it’s that algorithms and formulaic ...

The Anti-Defamation League is taking its fight against hate to the world of video games, starting with supporting and training game developers in hopes of eventually reaching the massive 2.6 billion ...

Internet trolls turned Brianna Wu's life upside down. But she's running for Congress and thinking all isn't quite lost. Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Michael Koretzky saw an opportunity—that’s what he would call it, anyway. It was early May, and the Society of Professional ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. I think #GamerGate's smartest critics understand it best.

This is how far we have to go: the Entertainment Software Association, a U.S. video game trade association and sometime D.C. lobbyist group, is now having to remind us that threatening to do violent ...

Video gamers are having a bizarre debate over whether sending death threats to women is a serious issue or not, as Business Insider discovered looking into the GamerGate movement. To anyone who is not ...

What's behind the culture clash of gamers? — -- intro: With the popularity of games on consoles, online and via mobile devices, there is no longer one profile of the "typical" gamer. A ...