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title: Reflecting on Gamergate Today in 2020
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2020-06-21T19:04:47+08:00
I worked really hard on blogging about video games, years ago, but I was
really disheartened to discover way too late, but long before
'Gamergate' that there is really no such thing as 'video games
journalism'---to be a professional video game reviewer is to just
confect advertisements.
Video games have been trivialised socially, and given such a stigma of
being juvenile that you're probably better off doing work on the
political science, sociology, and industrial economics of the video
games industry.
Hardt & Negri, and, as much as it pains me to say this, Zizek studies on
video game multimedia have so much more integrity than what claims to be
'video games journalism'.
Also: journalism? In its newspaper form it is a part of the capitalist
state. Many of my old university peers who worked as journalists have
basically become staffers for politicians.