Tag: Industry News – Page 216
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FTC Endorsement Guide Now Includes Game Reviews, YouTubers, Affiliate Links
#GamerGate had a campaign last year to target various video game and media websites and bring some of what they felt were unethical practices to the doorstep of
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GamersGate Founder Departs Following Anti-#GamerGate Hate Campaign
GamersGate is a digital distribution service. It came out around 2004 and was originally an arm of Paradox Interactive to help gamers get a hold of their games
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#GamerGate: Reddit Mod On Nuked Thread ‘All Comments Were In Violation Of The Rules’
One of the big issues that a lot of people had about the early goings of #GamerGate – even before it was a hashtag and was labeled as the Quinnspiracy – was
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Reddit Mods Admit To Censoring #GamerGate, Hiding Corruption
The mod logs for Reddit were recently leaked. A lot of the leak mostly confirms what a lot of people already knew: many moderators on Reddit are biased and will
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#GamerGate: N4G Censoring Games Industry Corruption
[Update: N4G's administrator made an update in a blog post regarding #GamerGate submissions following the publication of this article] Corruption is what gave #
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#GamerGate: IGN’s Code Of Ethics Is Now Public
If you were busy with new year's festivities and all the FTC complaints about Gawker, the Game Journo Pros and other nefarious activities spawned from various m
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Dark Void SecuROM DRM Continues To Give Steam Users Trouble
Back in early October, 2014 users have been complaining about not being able to retrieve their CD keys for Dark Void. Essentially, they would attempt to log int
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The Fall Of Blistered Thumbs: Mismanagement And Despair – Part 1
This isn't an article about the rise and popularity of one of the most ambitious gaming websites that never quite fulfilled its potential. This is an article ab
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The Fall Of Blistered Thumbs: Mismanagement And Despair – Part 2
[Part 1] The general feeling from those I talked to who worked at Blistered Thumbs all felt that Austin Yorski was an editor-in-chief who knew where the site ne
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#GamerGate: FTC Info Updates Will Address Affiliate Links, Native Ads
It was originally reported that the FTC would be updating their FAQ for consumers to better identify media practices and endorsements that appear in nature to b
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#GamerGate: ABC Reporter Admits They Chose Harassment Angle Over Corruption
This is no longer an issue of games media being incompetent, inept or bereft of the proper measures of integrity to carry out the news and report on the facts,
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GamersGate Received Threats From Those Opposed To #GamerGate
It was bound to happen sooner or later. GamersGate has been around for quite some time... nearly a decade to be exact. It's a digital distribution portal for PC
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#GamerGate: Destructoid’s Battle With Abuse, Lies And Scandals – Part 1
For the time being, this will hopefully be the end of the Destructoid saga. It concludes with more people chiming in about Allistair Pinsof's firing, the truth