g*mers are garbage people that run on hatred of just about everything, but games journalism is mostly paid-for garbage too

but game journalism gave us this timeless image so i cant be too mad

#gamergate called gamers out for being misogynist, racist freaks and they responded with an extended outburst of incel rage. I’m still surprised one of them didn’t burst into the offices of Kotaku and mow down every woman in the place.

To their credit, the games journalists would have none of it and bravely resisted. Even today you can find a general disdain for gamers and constant interweaving of themes they hate in any reporting.

Also games journalism is broadly three things in one mess: consumer review (does this shit work), art review (plot, design, characters), and people things (actual journalism) - labor rights, rumors, stuff about people (creators) themselves. They really hated last two, if it destroyed precious thing in the first one