VGS: Why Adult Women are NOT the Largest Growing Demographic in Gaming
Added: 18.09.2014 9:13 | 1 views | 0 comments
Discussion time! Discussion time! With the world of Xs and Squares flipped on its side this month as rampart reports of sexual misogyny and misconduct plagued the headlines, VGS takes to the mic and try to figure why gaming cultures hates women/children/ethnic minorities and homosexuals just so much!
Also, statisticians join VGS to explain the issues in the ESRB survey that indicated Adult Women are the largest growing demo in gaming.
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| FBI called in to investigate death threats against Sarkeesian
Added: 17.09.2014 23:12 | 8 views | 0 comments
GameDynamo - By now, you've probably heard of Anita Sarkeesian, and her Kickstarted series, "Tropes Vs. Women In Video Games." Personally, I'm not a fan of it - I feel Sarkeesian does both herself and the industry a disservice with her research - though she makes a number of extremely intelligent points, they're undermined by what feels like incomplete evidence.
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| Well, that was interesting: September 9, 2014
Added: 08.09.2014 5:12 | 12 views | 0 comments
Continue Play's Brian Kale picks his top gaming and tech-related stories of the week, along with his usual roundup of audiovisual stimulus.
This week: Women making up nearly half of all gamers, Twitch Plays Pokemon, Sony's latest Xperia handsets, and self-driving cars.
Also: A wonderful cover of Civilization IV's main theme song, Baba Yetu; reminiscing over American Beauty; and an interview with Matt Hannon, star of Samurai Cop.
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| Breaking News: Women Are Gamers Too
Added: 06.09.2014 11:12 | 3 views | 0 comments
Pashford Murano takes a look at the controversy following Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn, and how asking for the "the death of the gamer" may be a misguided pursuit.
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| Anita Sarkeesians Women As Background Decoration Videos Are Actually Excellent Critiques
Added: 05.09.2014 18:18 | 1 views | 0 comments
An opinion piece via EGMR that is 'totally going to ruin gaming'.
Quote: "But that is that and here we are today, talking about the latest in the Feminist Frequency series of videos listed under Tropes vs Women in Video Games; this mini-series entitled Women As Background Decoration, with the second part of these videos only recently released. Naturally, the internet erupted with the usual ferocity over yet another video that is going to ruin gaming for everyone, and so on. Meanwhile, I watched it and thought to myself, Holy hell, she actually has a goddamn point."
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| Pink PS Vita Aimed at Women Coming to Japan
Added: 01.09.2014 8:12 | 7 views | 0 comments
During Sony's press conference, it was announced that a light pink white PS Vita would be coming to Japan.
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| Woman says Wii dancing game saved her life
Added: 31.08.2014 16:12 | 23 views | 0 comments
Britain's Daily Mail tabloid can usually be relied upon to run stories that are hostile to video games, revealing the "chilling truth" behind hit games and their "morally immature" imprint on young minds. But today, the newspaper is running a story about a woman who credits playing a Nintendo Wii game, with saving her life.
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| A Comprehensive Guide to Dealing with Controversy in the Video Game Industry
Added: 29.08.2014 20:00 | 21 views | 0 comments
As a turbulent and downright embarrassing week in the gaming industry comes to a close, many of you have likely found yourself bogged down in opinion pieces, inflammatory tweets and hyperbolic blog posts regarding the "Zoe Quinn controversy."
This story started when Depression Quest developer Quinn reportedly cheated on her boyfriend with members of the gaming media, though that later escalated into a doxxing which revolves around the posting of private information online. Some claimed she did this to herself in order to "gain sympathy". Later FEZ developer Phil Fish was also doxxed and accused of staging the hack as part of an elaborate scheme in order tohellip; get some attention(?)
Nonetheless, itÄ‚Ë€â„Ës been a week of yet more controversies in an industry which is increasingly fond of giving us things to rant about. HereÄ‚Ë€â„Ës a comprehensive guide to dealing with unending controversy in the video game industry.
1. Does it actively concern video games? If not, then move along!
It may seem so exciting, peeking into someoneÄ‚Ë€â„Ës underwear drawer and rifling through their personal stuff but arenÄ‚Ë€â„Ët we all here for, yÄ‚Ë€â„Ëknow, the video games? I know I am. I never thought about how many women Shigeru Miyamoto has shagged while I was playing Super Mario Galaxy.
If I learned that Miyamoto had, say, shagged five women behind his girlfriendÄ‚Ë€â„Ës back, IÄ‚Ë€â„Ëd think "Damn, Shiggy, thatÄ‚Ë€â„Ës a lot of shagging youÄ‚Ë€â„Ëve been doing there," but IÄ‚Ë€â„Ëd carry on playing Super Mario Galaxy regardless because IÄ‚Ë€â„Ëm in this for the video games.
2. DonÄ‚Ë€â„Ët hire a straight white guy to discuss how minorities feel.
"Minorities arenÄ‚Ë€â„Ët given a voice in this industry!" or words to that effect should never be the focal point of an article written by a straight, white guy. If you belong to an outlet that claims to support equality in the gaming industry, actions speak louder than words.
3. DonÄ‚Ë€â„Ët ever use the term "Social Justice Warrior" to describe someone, because itÄ‚Ë€â„Ës embarrassing.
Look, I get it. Everyone keeps discussing those pesky social issues when all you want to do is read about video games. However, this industry is created and enjoyed by humans and humans have stories.
Sometimes they want to tell their stories. Sometimes those stories will concern the lack of diversity in the industry or a similar topic that trigger Internet misogyny and homophobia. If you find yourself ever stumbling upon a written piece or a video where someone is tackling these issues, please do not refer to them or their supporters as "Social Justice Warriors." Not only does the use of this term suggest that you are, by default, a "Social Injustice Warrior" which is essentially an admittance that youÄ‚Ë€â„Ëre the bad guy, but itÄ‚Ë€â„Ës also incredibly embarrassing.
Indeed, every time I see the term Social Justice Warrior or its acronym SJW slung about online, I cringe with such intensity that I have to insert my fist into my mouth and bite down on it. If I see Social Justice Warrior accompanied by "White Knight" in the same sentence, my fist then travels further down my throat, forcing me to choke on my own arm... which hurts me.
4. YouÄ‚Ë€â„Ëre not going to change anyoneÄ‚Ë€â„Ës opinion in 140 characters.
Twitter is an ever-expanding archive of the EarthÄ‚Ë€â„Ës opinions and as such when another controversy begins to rear its head in the gaming industry, people hurriedly tweet their thoughts regarding the matter until the site becomes a sea of righteousness, temerity, and ill-planned jokes. Even if youÄ‚Ë€â„Ëre on the "right" side of the debate, i.e. the one that isnÄ‚Ë€â„Ët vehemently spitting out bile and setting out to systematically ruin someoneÄ‚Ë€â„Ës life, your tweets are utterly inconsequential when it comes to solving the matter at hand and do nothing other than add fire to the flames.
One tweet isnÄ‚Ë€â„Ët going to alter anyoneÄ‚Ë€â„Ës worldview and the loathsome imbeciles who use the site to spout their vile opinions whilst hidden behind a curtain of anonymity arenÄ‚Ë€â„Ët going to clean up their act because of you. When you tweet your opinions, all youÄ‚Ë€â„Ëre doing is preaching to the converted and giving the morons more material to use in their continued campaign against common decency.
5. Go outside.
When we were growing up we were always told that we should "go outside more" whenever we sat down with our Super Nintendo, our Sega Genesis, or our PlayStation. Kids today are told they shouldnÄ‚Ë€â„Ët be playing online with their friends and that they should instead be outside kicking a ball around with them in a park somewhere.
Of course, we have always laughed at these people and their fuddy-duddy mentalities but looking back IÄ‚Ë€â„Ëm pretty sure they were right. Back in my day, there was nothing better than sitting indoors, in front of the TV with a controller in hand. Video games made indoors fun but now thereÄ‚Ë€â„Ës a whole bunch of people trying to make video games not fun and I think itÄ‚Ë€â„Ës about time that going outside had something of a renaissance. It seems that the "gaming community" (something which IÄ‚Ë€â„Ëm increasingly embarrassed to be lumped in with, given how progressively awful it is) is too pre-occupied with pointing fingers and yelling and generally making a diabolical nuisance of itself to enjoy the very thing weÄ‚Ë€â„Ëre all in this for.
Video games used to be an outlet for people to relieve their stress or to just sit back, relax, and enjoy themselves but now theyÄ‚Ë€â„Ëve become this vehicle that people use to peddle their embittered worldviews, channeling their hatred of women and other such abhorrence into campaigns for "journalistic integrity" and other "issues" that they have little to no idea about.
Over the past week these campaigns have reached their nadir, with a Patreon campaign for a documentary titled Ä‚Ë€ÂÂThe Sarkeesian EffectÄ‚ËĂ˘â€šÂ¬Ă˘â€žË in which two white guys attempt to "expose" the damaging effect those blasted Social Justice Warriors are having on the white, straight patriarchy. This campaign has attracted 92 patrons who will be donating around $2,000 a month to these dicks. On a related note, one of the campaignÄ‚Ë€â„Ës organizers previously uploaded a YouTube video on "Race Realism" in which he stated that "it makes sense to avoid the black population for your own personal safety."
This is not-so-vaguely reminiscent of the anti-Anita Sarkeesian campaign that was set up after she launched her Ä‚Ë€ÂÂTropes vs. Women in VideogamesÄ‚ËĂ˘â€šÂ¬Ă˘â€žË Kickstarter, innovatively titled Ä‚Ë€ÂÂTropes vs. Men in VideogamesÄ‚ËĂ˘â€šÂ¬Ă˘â€žË which reached its donation goal before disappearing off the face of the Earth. The campaignÄ‚Ë€â„Ës organizers issued a few updates in which they claimed that they had given the money to charity but after Gameranx contacted the Prostate Cancer Foundation, one of its reported beneficiaries, it was revealed that no such donation had been made. Tellingly, this hoax campaign hasnÄ‚Ë€â„Ët caused nearly as much of a stir as AnitaÄ‚Ë€â„Ës videos, despite Anita actually using the money she acquired from her campaign to make the videos that she said she would.
Which leads me back to my point: you should go outside. This kind of shit doesnÄ‚Ë€â„Ët happen in the great outdoors. You wonÄ‚Ë€â„Ët be endlessly bombarded by anime avatars with remarkably ill-informed opinions on the "bias" of games journalism and no one out there even knows who Zoe Quinn is or why her having relations with people in the industry she resides in is emblematic of some sort of deep-seated corruption. In fact, when you step away from your Macbook and turn off your phone, itÄ‚Ë€â„Ës almost as if none of that stuff even exists and you begin to appreciate just how ridiculous it is that there are a whole host of individuals who never have and, given their lunacy, never will be gaming journalists telling those who are how theyÄ‚Ë€â„Ëre doing their job wrong.
In conclusion
I hope that this guide has given you the tools required to deal with controversy in the video game industry. There are plenty more tips you could add to your arsenal, such as "DonÄ‚Ë€â„Ët read comments sections of divisive topics" and "Avoid YouTube channels in which the host pitches themselves as the sole beacon of hope and truth in the gaming media" but I would assume that theyÄ‚Ë€â„Ëre pretty obvious.
Anyway, enjoy the rest of your week and I implore you to take heed of this guide every time you find yourself slipping into a dark hole of overblown controversy. Remember: video games are fun, but people are awful.
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