Zoe Quinn is the indie game developer behind “Depression Quest,” a game that shows what it is like to live with depression. Originally, in developing the game and trying to get it posted to Steam, Quinn became internet famous for being harassed by trolls and the 4chan crowd — a problem that routinely seems to accompany girls involved in gaming.
Now the trolls are feeling justified in their smugness because Quinn’s one-time boyfriend just posted a series of blogs that indicate (with proof) that Quinn has been involved in a series of affairs with prominent members of the gaming community, including her boss and a writer for Kotaku.
tl;dr: Female game dev slept with five (possibly more) game journalists, site admins etc in exchange for positive press on prominent gaming websites and forums, and was exposed by her ex.
I think that this will affect game journalism as a whole. Right now, we as gamers don't know who exactly she had contact with (or had sex with), so now that this scandal has broken out, we can't trust anyone anymore. She's using sex to control the gaming industry and punish those who are even so much as slightly critical of her. This is both damning for the industry as a whole and something that should not happen, under any circumstances.
Original article is located here.
