[socjus] In the Trump era, can videogames about killing Nazis be just ‘for fun’? (Los Angeles Times)

While successes such as “This War of Mine” and topical, immigration-themed indie titles like “Papers, Please,” give Paintbucket the belief that its title will find an audience, there’s also the hope that it will help change the dialogue in gaming. A loud and toxic sector of the gaming world has taken on many of the alt-right’s talking points, namely the idea that so-called “social justice warriors,” feminists and those with political agendas are ruining games.

Guess that recent controversy over Ion Storm was just something I dreamed.

This was behind the 2014 movement known as Gamergate, which was endorsed by Breitbart News and flourished on online forums such as 8chan, linked not only with the accused El Paso shooter but with the deadly shootings at two New Zealand mosques and a synagogue in Poway, near San Diego.

How is this journalism?

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