What is Gamergate controversy?
{{Article issues| {{NPOV|date=April 2020}} {{Cleanup|date=January 2024}} {{No sources|date=February 2025}} {{Restructure|date=February 2025}} }} The '''Gamergate controversy''' is a popular [[nickname]] for a controversy about [[women]] and [[video game]]s as well as corruption in [[video game journalism]]. ==History== [[Zoë Quinn]] designed a [[video game]] called Depression Quest about a person who struggles with [[depression]]. Several video game journalists praised the [[game]] while others said that it was too disturbing to be a good [[game]]. People in the second group claimed that the only reason Quinn's [[game]] was popular was because of people who cared more about [[feminism]] and [[political correctness]] than the quality of [[Video game|video games]]. Then, Quinn's ex-[[boyfriend]] started a [[blog]] wherein he accused her of having had [[sex]] with a [[male]] video game journalist in exchange for good reviews.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} That [[journalist]] pointed out that he had never reviewed the [[game]] at all. More people started to criticize her and her game, with very few people sending threats of [[murder]], [[rape]] and other forms of [[violence]] towards Quinn. When people came to Quinn's defense and said that the attacks against Quinn were proof of [[sexism]] against [[video game]] designers who were not [[male]], they were accused of being [[Social Justice Warriors|social justice warriors (SJWs)]]. [[Milo Yiannopoulos]] supported Quinn's attackers on ''Breitbart'' and said that anybody who did not support her attackers was being too [[Political correctness|politically correct]]. [[Category:Journalism]] [[Category:Video games]] [[Category:Controversies]] [[Category:Internet culture]]