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Some while ago, an angry boyfriend much like the assassin who killed the Arch Duke of Austria initiated a massive conflict. It was mundane enough, with accusations of relationships bringing about biased coverage of some indie dev's game. It would have been all well & good after a while, that is until they mobilized their troops and began censoring any dissent on the subject.
Eventually some geniuses decided to write articles declaring "Gamers Are Dead" which is a bit like MSNBC claiming Obama a Kenyan or Fox calling Saint Reagan a communist. Now of course this didn't go over so well and especially in a world where Gamers are frequently used as scapegoat, as if they're the virtual version of Jews back in the 1930s. #GamerGate was born from a decent actor, Adam Baldwin, and it quite obviously caught on quite well.
Regardless the endless claims of misogyny, threats, and their imperturbable victim complex all is well. No media, old or new, can doom a revolution so populated and supportive of its friends. Be they feminist game developers like the Fine Young Capitalists, assaulted by our crazed enemies, or people like the Daniel Vávra, the Creative Director of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. We are many, we are united, we are legion, we are not Anonymous; they have mentioned supporting us though.
Local GamerGate Base: Moddb.com
My opinion on the "gamers are dead" things and the systematic campaign waged against them: Moddb.com
This has been a long time coming, after all the anger inspired by monoliths such as EA or Ubisoft to small indie developers losing their **** when someone doesn't like their terrible game. IGN among other publications haven't exactly been worth much in the way of praise either. The censorship brigade has chosen the worst target that exists; at least even Obama can't drone you without a half decent excuse.
Aside from the issue at hand, being gaming journalism. I cannot help but be overjoyed at the timing of this as feminists seem to be committing themselves to the siege of Stalingrad. In addressing many audiences within recent months on an individual basis and attracting no shortage of attention, the means to oppose them have been provided. The zeitgeist now more than ever is and can shift entirely against them as their sheer ridiculousness permeates society.
Since you mentioned MSNBC, it's good to remember that they talked about gamergate. They sided with the other side, obviously. Mainstream media is biased with wars, why would they not be with something smaller in comparison.
One thing that should be noted for history, is the pre-events that happened before gamergate.
I have not followed gamergate in depth, the amount of ******** and evading of questions the sites made is huge (for example, Rock, Paper, Shotgun made a huge article a long time ago explaining their standing and "answering" questions, I was going to read that in full, but when I noticed it was taking to long, coupled with the fact they wrote a lot and said nothing, I decided to not waste my time).
But, back to the pre-events, before gamergate started with the quinnspiracy, the sites had started to make articles based on not only inclusion, but also better variety in gaming, the greater majority of people on the comments agreed with it. Then these articles started getting more and more frequent, saying basically the same things over and over again, and sounding less like unbiased criticism and feeling like sensationalism. As you can imagine, it started getting annoying. I wasn't the only one that got annoyed, as people started complaining on the comments, and as time and more of these articles passed, more people started complaining. Then the fire rose.
I think that this assisted gamergate to get to the magnitude it is now. Gamergate started because of the reveals of corruption, but these previous events probably has instigated a bigger hatred on gamers, as it was, not only prior evidence to it, but also had already depleted some of the gamers' patience.
(For reference, the sites I'm talking about are the ones I used to follow more, PC Gamer and Rock, Paper, Shotgun.)
Love me some Sargon of Akkad. He gets so ragey sometimes.
As of late anti-GG has been using its, granted very limited, influence in encouraging others to not buy GG supporter's games. Problem being, a lot of them are women. Hypocrites.