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March 25, 2020 07:04 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21194232/toxic-marketing-sega-sony-microsoft-gamergate-vice
Go read this Vice piece about the history of toxic marketing in video games
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As an entertainment industry, gaming isn’t that old — it’s been around since the ‘70s, which makes it a baby compared to radio, film, and maybe even television. The story of most of that history has been one of technological progress; games today look very different than they did in the days of Pong.
Since Gamergate, however, the narrative has changed: there’s a new and growing awareness of a toxicity that’s been embedded seemingly in gaming itself. That has occasioned a reckoning of sorts, with people who care about games — playing them, making them — now thinking critically about the foibles of the industry that made them.
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21194232/toxic-marketing-sega-sony-microsoft-gamergate-vice
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