I’ve mentioned before that my mother started gaming in her 70s (sorry mom) in order to play games with my daughter and I thought that this was the coolest thing ever. This Christmas I gifted her with some appropriate gaming accessories for her 3DS (because she’s not that much of […]
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As we move into August and the anniversary of #GamerGate’s beginnings, I’ve been thinking through a lot of the discussions around gaming, and gaming identity, over the past year. It’s not a new topic for me; I’ve written about what it means to be a gamer often, both recently and […]
A recent thread on GamerGate hub KotakuInAction outlines a plan to “game” Twitter to get viral traction for a tag about the ggautoblocker, the tool created by Randi Harper that allows for wholesale blocking of GG participants, and TheBlockBot, a similar, though more universal tool. The call asks supporters to […]