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Gamer Pride: Defending The Gamer

Added: 12.12.2013 19:24 | 10 views | 0 comments

The New Statesman's online site recently published a piece with the Upworthy-eque title of "If you love games, you should refuse to be called a gamer." Simon Parkin's lambasting of gamers as a whole does not appear as a blog, or opinion, but under the "Culture" tab, as if to represent a factual piece. The only fact that really dominates, however, is that Mr. Parkin needs to take his holier-than-thou rhetoric and proverbial hipster glasses and follow Captain ShepardÄ‚ËĂ˘â€šÂ¬Ă˘â€žËs mantra - he should go.

Mr. Parkin begins with sensible pieces of evidence to back up his bombastic claim that the "idea of the gaming community needs to die." The painfully-bad VGX (formerly the Spike VGA awards) pandered to the straight white male lowest common denominator that makes the fan base of Spike, joking that Wario had not undergone sex-reassignment surgery. During the Microsoft press briefing at the 2013 E3 trade show, a pretty rape-y line was delivered during the Killer Instinct demo. "Relax, just let it happent" set the room abuzz, adding on to the PR nightmare Microsoft was suffering at the time, causing wonder if the statement was scripted or vaulted in the heat of competition, and failing to be anything positive in either situation.