Gamergate
9 entries
- 2026 Jul 2026 The Chud Reconquista: Asmongold and the Gamer Restoration The most-watched gamer on the internet looks into a camera and declares that chuds are the indigenous people of video games, staging a Reconquista to take the medium back. It is a bit. It is also a market report. The only question left is how much he means it, and that question is the whole weapon.
- 2010-2014 Jun 2026 Brad Wardell — Vindicated and Damned Brad Wardell won his case. His accuser formally apologized. The lawsuits were dismissed. None of it mattered, because the articles are still indexed and the apology is not. Full vindication in court. Permanent conviction on Google.
- 2014 Jun 2026 GameJournoPros — The Mailing List On September 17, 2014, Milo Yiannopoulos published leaked emails from GameJournoPros — a private Google Group of 150 games journalists from competing outlets. They were coordinating coverage, pressuring editors, and mocking their audience. The conspiracy theory was real. It just had a Google Group.
- 2014 Jun 2026 Leigh Alexander — Gamers Are Over On August 28, 2014, twelve outlets published the same article in twenty-four hours. The one that ended a career was the one in the trade publication with the advertisers.
- 2014 Jun 2026 Nathan Grayson — The Man at the Center Nathan Grayson was the Kotaku journalist with the undisclosed relationship that launched GamerGate. He was the actual ethics complaint. He was never the main target. He landed at the Washington Post and then co-founded his own outlet.
- 2012-2014 Jun 2026 Phil Fish — The Canary Phil Fish was the internet's punching bag before GamerGate had a name. The Fez creator's public meltdowns, Twitter feuds, and doxxing proved the harassment playbook worked. He was the proof of concept for everything that came after.
- Jun 2026 The Death of Games Journalism Gawker Media went from $48.7 million in annual revenue to a fire sale at 86% loss in three years. Kotaku got sold to a content farm. Polygon got sold to a content farm. The audience did not disappear. It migrated to individuals who do not answer to editors.
- Jun 2026 The Pretext Function GamerGate's ethics complaint was real. The journalist had an undisclosed relationship with a developer he covered. He went from Kotaku to the Washington Post. The women connected to the story were driven from their homes. The pretext was never the point.
- Mar 2026 The Gaming Industry Financial Crisis (2022-2026) Embracer Group collapse, live service graveyard, layoff wave, and the macro context for GamerGate 2.0
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