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Zoe Quinn submits Depression Quest to Steam Greenlight
Zoe Quinn claims to be harassed by Wizardchan for placing the game "Depression Quest" on Greenlight,
Wizardchang releases their side of the story with a full chronological breakdown in form of images and explains why they didn't target Zoe Quinn
Depression Quest is released on Steam
The Fine Young Capitalists start a campaign to get more women into the gaming industry.
Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend posts, among other things, about Zoe Quinn's relationships while they were together. He mentions 5 men, 3 of whom he names: Joshua Boggs (her boss), Nathan Grayson (writer at Kotaku who covered Quinn) and Robin Arnott (dev)
Youtuber "MundaneMatt" releases a Youtube video commenting on Zoe Quinn's behavior and the corruption in video game journalism. The video was later taken down by a DMCA claim.
Redditor MannoSlimmins provides evidence that Quinn faked being harassed by Wizardchang users.
User Rebant from Escapist website sumbits a thread criticising Zoe Quinn's behavior and the video game blogs for ignoring the story.
"The Fine Young Capitalists", a group focused on helping women make vide games, comes out claiming Zoe Quinn ruined their game jam, only to later set up her own.
Youtuber "Internet Aristocrat" releases a video criticising Zoe Quinn for using sex to influence VG journalists and for portraying herself as a victim to receive donations and support.
Zoe Quinn claims that Tumblr and Twitter page were hacked. Additionally, she claims to be doxxed by users from 4chan's /v/. That post was later deleted.
Tumblr user "The Spectacular Spider-Girl" points out several inconsistencies in Zoe Quinn's claims as evidence that she fabricated the doxx. Additionally, the doxxed phone numbers showed no connection to Zoe Quinn.
Hours after releasing their article, GameNosh's host asked them to remove the article. The page got later removed and redirected to a 404 page. The story was mirrored on Pastebin
Article was removed without a public statement.
Total Biscuit denounces Zoe Quinn for abusing the DMCA to take down criticism of her product and lamented the cronyism present in the gaming journalism scene.
Reddit deletes a massive amount of comments on the comment section of Total Biscuit's commentary. Evidence is later found that the moderator of /r/gaming and Zoe Quinn have exchanged emails during that time.
Zoe Quinn writes about the scandal , claims it is about her private life, complains that members of 4chan had doxxed her and thanks the moderators for removing posts about her.
Stephen Totilo releases a statement about Nathan Grayson, who allegedly had relations with Zoe Quinn. He claims that Nathan and Zoe were only friends when Nathan had written an article about her and that their romantic relation only started after said article.
Zoe Quinn won the Indiecade Night Games Selection Award. This award was selected by Robin Arnott, with whom Zoe Quinn had a relationship.
Youtuber "PressFartToContinue" releases a video with the TFYC's founder explaining the story of how Zoe Quinn led a crusade against their game jam.
MundaneMatt confirms that the DMCA takedown notice did come from Zoe Quinn
GamesNosh comments on the hate Total Biscuit received after criticizing and commenting on Zoe Quinn and the related scandal
Youtuber "Internet Aristocrat" releases a video speculating further about Zoe Quinn using her relationships in the VG industry for personal gain.
As a thank you to 4chan, The Fine Young Capitalists let them chose a topic for a video they would create. The chosen topic was: "Tell us about female game developers". TFYC obliged by talking about Roberta Williams.
The Daily Dot writes about Zoe Quinn's and Polytron's doxing and hacking.
An imgur album was creating, collecting evidence of reddit's aggressive moderating and deletion of any discussion regarding Zoe Quinn and the journalism scandal
An imgur album was created, collecting evidence that Zoe Quinn contacted reddit moderators and asked them to remove any post about the incident. Later, reddit admins removed the mod who leaked the information.
Danielle Riendeau reviews her friend Steve Gaynor's game "Gone Home" and gives it a full 10/10. The relationship was not disclosed.
The Fine Young Capitalists's IndieGoGo page got hacked.
Youtuber "ReviewTechUSA" releases a video with Youtuber "MundaneMatt". MundaneMatt talks about the evidence so far, including: Zoe Quinn's doxx and inconsistencies within it, Polytron's hacking and doxxing, Zoe Quinn's shutting down of TFYC and 4chan's attempts to revive it and how game journalists are not being scrutinized like journalists from other areas are.
Evidence is found that Patricia Hernandez (writer for Kotaku) has written multiple times about Anna Anthropy (indy dev), even though Stephen Totilo (editor-in-chief) clearly states writers should recluse themselves in those cases.
Evidence is found that Leigh Alexander writes multiple big-hit pieces about big names while mentioning Anna Anthropy, an unknown indy-dev. The relationship was not disclosed.
Nathan Grayson mentions Robin Arnott an unusually high amount of times on topics completely unrelated to Robin Arnott's game. The relationship was not disclosed.
Evidence is found the Zoe Quinn actively denounced The Fine Young Capitalists on Twitter.
Evidence is found that many gaming journalists are financially supporting game developers they write about.
Kotaku decided to instill a ban on all of their journalists from contributing to the patreons of game developers.
Readers released a statement condeming Polygon's new ethics policy for still being unsatisfactory and unprofessional.
Polygon announces that writers must disclose any contributions they made towards the developers they write about.
Adam Baldwin tweets both of InternetAristocrat's videos with the hashtag "#GamerGate"
Several websites post about "the end of the gamer" in a very quick and seemingly coordinated fashion.
Gamasutra's version of "The end of the Gamer" by Leigh Alexander
The Daily Beast's version of "The end of the gamer" by Arthur Chu
The Daily Beast's version of "The end of the gamer" by Tauriq Moosa
Beta Beat's version of "The end of the gamer" by Jack Smith IV
Canada.com's version of "The end of the gamer" by Patrick O'Rourke
Polygon's version of "The end of the gamer" by Chris Plante
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