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Did you miss the part where some of those people inexplicably called out GB directly?

Haven't followed the gamergate stuff much but after watching that youtube video with the 4 games writers that mostly seem to support the movement, I do agree with a lot of what they're saying. It's really strange how most of these big gaming sites have stopped writing to their main audience and instead have started insulting it.

I mean, the "core" video game demographic seems pretty clear. Recently, Nintendo released their wii u eshop data and it was 93% male. So now that games journalists on a lot of major sites seem to write a lot about feminist stuff and what female characters are wearing and other things like that, most video game players seem to be annoyed or confused as to why they should care. And then the games writers in that echo chamber write more stuff insulting those people that don't care and the cycle keeps going.

I play video games. I want to hear about their mechanics and stuff. I have no power to change what other people like. The lecturing about what I should do to make more women like games is pointless and annoying and it seems to have creeped into most video game coverage. I can see why this large group of people think this stuff is troubling.

Yeah, I'm glad to now know that at least Patrick is anti-death threats. I haven't heard from the rest of them yet though. Who knows what their stance on death threats might be?! Especially that Jeff guy. He's got that shifty look in his eyes.

The only reasonable thing TO do. Disband the site, join the Twitter moderation team and put an end to these threats.

I think it won't be truly covered until they all do a livestream of themselves getting anti-gamergate tattoos.

Weird that people care about video game sites taking a stance on this stuff. Did you think they were pro-harassment or something? Obviously it's wrong and there continues to be nothing they can do about threats on twitter.

That would be terrible. Besides Danny, Gamespot is super lame. All they would add to GB is a more corporate feel.

I have no idea what they were doing with that extra time they had. It doesn't even look much better or play that much differently(from trying the demo). I was looking forward to finally playing EASHL on my ps4 but then EA happened. Of course they were able to get HUT in there to get that micro-transaction money but couldn't get all these other modes in. Definitely skipping this year.

Nintendo does have a ton of diversity in their stuff and that's why I was saying it's crazy even their platform has such a huge split. It just seems like the majority of that demographic(women) have no interest in video games unless they're a motion based thing or a mobile game.

Which is why it's so weird that this topic is what all these games journalists want to talk about. Since most of the actual audience for video game coverage doesn't care about that stuff at all that's probably why so many people feel games journalism has become a joke. It's just lecturing people for things they have no control over and also things they don't really care about.