The Pokemon World Championship. Really?
Detectives discovered that the two men had driven from Iowa with several guns in their vehicle that they did not have licenses for.
After obtaining a search warrant for the vehicle, police found a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15, several hundred rounds of ammunition and a hunting knife.
On Friday, arrest warrants were issued for 18-year-old Kevin Norton and 27-year-old James Stumbo and the men were taken in to custody at their hotel in Saugus.
“E-sports is a global phenomenon that has really started to grow in the last six to seven years in North America,” he said. “In other places like Korea and Japan, it has been a pretty big sport for 15 to 20 years. It is actually South Korea’s national sport.”
Can confirm that Koreans are cut-throat good at Planetside2. Course, I’m hardly good, so take that for what it’s worth.
The Social Justice Warriors (SJW’s) are so concerned about #Gamergate being able to argue their point of view in front of real journalists (as opposed to the gaming press) that they’ve called in multiple bomb threats.
The perfect phrase? From Milo’s report on what Christina Hoff Sommers was going to say:
Too many in the media are addicted to a simplistic damsel in distress storyline
Perfect. A knife straight to the SJW’s soul.
When Gawker whacked the beehive last fall, it ended up costing them some seven figures in ad revenue, and while some gamers were contacting the advertisers directly, other gamers were letting the Federal Trade Commission know about business practices they’d seen that they considered shady.
It appears that effort has finally paid off, as the FTC has updated its endorsement guidelines in ways that directly address the concerns raised by gamers.
So, to recap, conservative minded folks fail to influence culture or to buttress their beliefs against the tide of SJW’s, but gamers and SF readers are winning.
So we’ll probably dismiss them as teenagers and nerds some more.
#gamergate is STILL getting wins from the FTC for taking a REAL action, reporting and presenting info. You CHANGED A COUNTRY'S RULES.
— Oliver Campbell (@oliverbcampbell) June 5, 2015
Virginia Kruta writing on Dana Loesch’s site on #Gamergate.
#GamerGate is essentially the backlash, fueled by gamers themselves, against a collusion between game developers and certain gaming journalists to promote specific games based on their political value rather than merit.
I’ll add a simple example that doesn’t quit fit the ‘political’ narrative:
The newest Simcity came out in early 2013. It sold for around $80. The city simulation genre has millions of fans, most not normally known as ‘gamers’. It’s a concept that crosses from the traditional gaming enthusiast to the people just wanting to idle away some time. The game was unplayable on release and for at least two months after. It still hasn’t lived up to the hype that Electronic Arts payed for. Magazines were filled with glowing reviews, multi-page infomercials. The hype was unbelievable. “Finally a successor to the 11 year old Simcity 4!”, etc.
This is the Metacritic page. Look at the difference in reviews from the Critics vs the Users. One group reaped benefits from EA’s largess and the other group payed EA for the privilege of having a crap game.
The eulogy? EA shut down the Maxis studio responsible for Simcity 2013 in March. Cities: Skylines from developer Colossal Order and published by Paradox has taken the throne of city simulations, and they are doing it for around $30.