In the past, conversations about quality of life within the video game industry have been scattered and disconnected as individual events initiate discussions in diverse locations. By gathering and organizing these stories and making a permanent archive, we respond to the call made by Mia Consalvo in her 2012 article Confronting Toxic Gamer Culture: A Challenge for Feminist Game Studies Scholars in Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology:
A final call I make is for continuing documentation of these events and practices, to serve as a record and evidence of the widespread nature of such issues, so we can see how patterns emerge, or how actions or attitudes change over time. Likewise, gathering or collecting materials allows for future researchers to have a baseline of archival materials available to them for later research and analysis. Despite the seeming persistence of online documents and artifacts, much is disappearing from the internet or becoming increasingly harder to find. Even with technologies like the WayBack Machine and library digital archives, it can still be difficult to locate or identify materials from even six months ago. By locating, storing at even simply taking screenshots of what we see now, we can provide real help to later scholarly work.
We hope that our archive is a valuable resource for researchers, industry professionals and other interested parties moving forward.
We will check links periodically and if they have become inactive, we will replace them with pdf versions of the original article. We make no claims to copyright and conduct this work in the spirit of fair dealing.
These pages contain general information pertaining to a variety of broad subjects in the video game industry.
These pages contain articles about significant events that have happened in the video game industry related to the general topics above.
These pages contain articles that address significant stories about specific game companies.
In addition to the archive, there are active discussions on this site's blog. We encourage you to join the conversation and engage with the topics found here.