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I remember whoal thing started with a woman named Zoe Quinn. She was an activist (mostly for woman's rights and other often pretty extreme left wing principles) working in the game industry in some form, then decided to make her own game. It was a completely free, text based story focused game with choices. Think it as something like Life is Strange or a Telltale Game expect no graphics or voice overs. I haven't tried it, but from what I hear it was sub-par even for what it was with nonsensical plot lines, the choices didn't really affect anything and it was prechy. So, a bit of an unimportant, low quality but fairly harmless indie "game" created on a miniscule scale that was never going to leave much impact. However, despite not even meeting the low bar the game had set itself, a number of influecial journalists from the games industry gave it glowing reviews. All of them men, several of them knew Zoe Quinn personality and even had "relations" with her. I'm going to make one thing perfectly clear here, I am not accusing Zoe of "offering favours" in exchange for this good coverage of her game, but normal people could see there was something wrong with this picture as the game clearly wasn't worthy of these positive reviews. Whether she did "offer favours" or not, it was clear her connection to these journalists was what led to these reviews, not the game itself. So, corruption in games journalism seemed to be the only thing that made sense. The rise against that corruption, was #gamergate. Zoe and her friends in both in games journalism and in femist activist groups were not going to take this lying down, though, and fired back at gamers citing the misogyny and prejudices that sadly were (and at least to some extent, still are) rife amongst gamers against them in what, I personally think this was an attempt to burry the talk of corruption. However, far too many idiots on the pre-gamer gate side were all to eager to project and express this stereotype and the tru purpose of #gamergate states to loose traction. Yes, the sexisum, homophobia, misogyny and online bullying that game's journalists were trying to associate with #gamergate instead of the discussion on ethics in games journalism were real things and something gaming culture needed called out on, but this was the game's journalists doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. We could have had game's journalists start to hold themselves to a higher standard to (at leat partiality) eliminate corruption from game journalism and we could have a positive message spread among gamers to be more accepting and and take steps to end misogyny and other deep rooted prejudices within gamer culture, but in the end both these possitve ideas got drowned out by a massive shit flinging contest feed by lies, exaggerations and preconceptions from both sides. Such a shame.

This is essentially the best roundup I've seen so far, and am likely going to see. Nobody won from this; journalists involved call today a post-Gamergate industry implying we've moved on, and Kotaku-In-Action (ironically abbreviated to KIA) is struggling to come up with new accomplishments to add to its questionable list. For all the talk of ethics in journalism, it has been since its inception unethical because its inception was advertisement by the makers of video games. It still is whether or not you believe Gamergate is still alive and kicking. Most journalism that goes on is second-hand reporting on leaks or press releases, essentially anything a developer/publisher wants people to know. Jason Schreir's reporting is unique because it's actual journalism, not just parroting what developers come out with. Even when I write for HubPages I'm still guilty of it, it's just that I add a cynical spin. To improve the ethics in journalism you have to either be a journalist who can regulate themself, an editor who can regulate their staff, or someone with the legislative pull to regulate the industry at large (the lattermost is especially difficult, because those with said pull can't be at all blogs/magazines/papers at once). While I will give credit to Gamergate for highlighting the lack of ethics in games journalism, the movement has also encouraged a lot of piss poor behaviour from people who, ironically, don't make the investigative leaps to find out what games journalism is like.

My friend does but with the limited space on the drive I’d rather wait for the second gen and a better (and cheaper) swap to do so I don’t have to move games around or redownload them all of the time