You know, for the last couple of years. I have seen quite a few crazy Twitter rants (Tauriq Moosa and Arthur Chu anyone?), personal attacks (like that one time when Gizmodo went after Palmer Luckey) and more or less threats from people who work for big Gaming sites such as Kotaku and Polygon (not to mention plenty of conflict of interest cases). Ne... Read more
Ah, NeoGaf, so we meet again, how…nice. Truth be told though, I have avoided NeoGaf like the plague for years as I find them to be the Tumblr of Gaming forums (N4G + Imzy + Tumblr = NeoGaf). Furthermore, a lot of NeoGaf´s users love and even embrace censorship (especially in the West). So I can´t really say that it´s my... Read more
Yeah, yeah, another attack on #GamerGate. Surprised? You know, every time I think I’m done talking about GG and done having to defend them, articles like this pop up that are just so insane in their composition that I just can’t avoid talking about it. I mean, I shouldn’t have to defend GG, really I shouldn’t. As all the information... Read more
I (Robin Ek, TGG) had a feeling that something would happen in the case with Jed Whitaker (Destructoid writer) and William Hicks (Heat Street writer), because Heat Street published a post about Jed Whitaker and his Nazi rants about JonTron not so long ago (the post was published on the 31st of January). Well, I was right. You see, just... Read more
In 2015, ‘Internet Gaming Disorder’ (IGD) was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-V) as a preliminary diagnosis. Its preliminary status meant that a set of diagnostic criteria was proposed for the disorder, but encouraged researchers to explore the validity of the diagnosis before making it official. Towards t... Read more