Scott Shackford on GamerGate and Consumerism as a Culture War Battleground

There has been more text written about the
controversy known as “GamerGate” than lines of dialogue in newly
released fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age:
Inquisition. In fact, whether GamerGate is actually a
controversy and not just certain factions acting out and harassing
one another through social media is itself a focus of
controversy. The Wikipedia page for GamerGate is longer than the
Wikipedia page for the Watergate scandal.

As Reason’s Scott Shackford notes, it may seem strange
to non-gamers that video games could launch a culture war. But
video games have become a prime contributor to popular culture. It
was inevitable that the video game industry would become the
battleground for the new generation of culture wars brewing among
millennials.

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