The Anti-Defamation League is taking its fight against hate to the world of video games, starting with supporting and training game developers in hopes of eventually reaching the massive 2.6 billion ...

The company behind lyric annotator Genius came out with a new tool, News Genius, so its users could add annotations to any page on the internet. Imagine if that ability were in the hands of one of the ...

Stephen Colbert identifies himself as a “gamer,” so it was no surprise that the “Colbert Report” host tackled the controversy known as “Gamergate” on his show Wednesday night. And to help educate ...

Internet trolls turned Brianna Wu's life upside down. But she's running for Congress and thinking all isn't quite lost. Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and ...

My colleague Erik Kain reports on the sadly abbreviated "SJP AirPlay", the oddly-titled event convened by the chair of the Society of Professional Journalists' Florida chapter to discuss how ...

Update: The original version of this story used a screenshot of Lewis Denby and Ashton Raze’s Richard and Alice instead of Zoe Quinn’s Depression Quest. Thanks to ...

It began as an attempt to shut up one woman – a video-game developer who had criticized the entrenched sexism and misogyny in her industry – by “slut-shaming” her and then threatening her. As other ...

There has been more text written about the controversy known as "GamerGate" than lines of dialogue in the newly released fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age: Inquisition. In fact, whether GamerGate ...

If #Gamergate teaches us anything — beyond, of course, vastly obvious observations about the toxicity of certain Internet demographics (which is hardly new news) — it’s that algorithms and formulaic ...

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What's behind the culture clash of gamers? — -- intro: With the popularity of games on consoles, online and via mobile devices, there is no longer one profile of the "typical" gamer. A ...