#GamerGate Remember that little talk about that phase between video games journalism and academia that would come to pass? Well, the time to cross that bridge has come. Prepare yourselves. For all those asking what the two have anything to do with eachother, it will all be explained. Get a seat and something to eat, you are going to be here a while.

1- Suzanne de Castell, PhD:
https://archive.today/9qAsJ
https://archive.today/w4Ulb

Suzanne was involved with the Faculty of Education, University of Ontario Institute of Technology and is knee deep in gender politics and pushing them through academia. Why does she matter? Look at the second link to understand her involvement. Digital game studies.

2- Douglas Thomas:
https://archive.today/naQNI
https://archive.today/EhD0T
https://archive.today/n8S8R

He is not only a journalist, but an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Why does he matter? Look at the third link. I should not even have to explain this one.

3- Kylie Peppler:
https://archive.today/0ew81
https://archive.today/Q9mAM
https://archive.today/ry957
https://archive.today/TVpql
http://www.freezepage.com/1427352276RDKEBWECZT

She is an assistant professor of learning sciences in the School of Education at Indiana University. Still don't get it? Look at what foundations support her.

4- Adrienne Shaw:
https://archive.today/E5nTN
https://archive.today/Mn0YE
https://archive.today/NZU6Y
https://archive.today/kbWEQ

A name we are all familiar with. This woman is not only involved with games, academia, but is also an IARPA lapdog. If I need to explain this one to you, you are in the wrong place.

5- Common Core and Beyond:
https://archive.today/FehnX
https://archive.today/Y8sOs
https://archive.today/tIPLJ
https://archive.today/MkFOp
http://www.freezepage.com/1428906901MOZSDCPAPG
https://archive.today/tVS87
https://archive.today/jVSqJ
http://www.freezepage.com/1427352100UANSUOIVUV
https://archive.today/zsHz7

This covers not single people, but organizations that are bent on taking the video game industry and turning it into their Common Core reeducation tool. This covers such groups like Finji, Amplify, Schell Games who has some questionable people behind it, GlassLab who is involved with EA, the Institute of PLAY and more.

6- Lindsay Grace:
https://archive.today/V5yg5
https://archive.today/4mXSA
https://archive.today/m8R44
https://archive.today/9Rexj
https://archive.today/U5I6S

Lindsay who is an odd combination of a professor, game designer, programmer and artist (Yeah, sounds ominous already) is also given talks with the GDC, and literally works with DiGRA. I am sure I don't need to go on and the links will speak for me after that.

7- DARPA:
https://archive.today/R7Zlw
https://archive.today/we44t
https://archive.today/b1Ydp
https://archive.today/gW4hZ

Here comes the pain. I always hear the people saying what DARPA could possibly have to do in all of this. Will pay attention, because you are about to get those questions answered in all the ways you don't want to.

[Enter Joshua McCoy]

In the first link and what is the first thing you see. Look at the hair. Look at it. This man is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the college of Arts and Sciences in Washington DC. What does he have to do with it? Read on.

"Josh McCoy is a game developer, computer scientist and cross-disciplinary researcher whose work lies at the confluence of game technology, social science, artificial intelligence and design."

"This work has been nominated for the Technical Excellence award in the Independent Games Festival and an IndieCade award. Additionally, his research has been used in a DARPA-funded project to enable trainees to engage socially responsive characters with full-bodied interaction for the purpose of teaching good stranger behavior to soldiers in foreign lands."

Let me highlight that last part for you in case you missed it.

"IN THE INDEPENDENT GAMES FESTIVAL AND AN INDIECADE AWARD. ADDITIONALLY HIS RESEARCH HAS BEEN USED IN A DARPA-FUNDED PROJECT"

Need I say more. But the wild ride does not end yet.

Josh is also involved with IMMERSE which is funded by DARPA as Strategic Social Interaction Modules program. The goal of the project is to produce a game-based training environment that teaches people how interact as "good strangers" via practicing the skills necessary to have successful social interactions in unfamiliar languages and context.

We are not done yet.

[Enter Mr. Wade Shen and Dr. Rand Waltzman]

Guess who Wade works for. You guessed it, DARPA. What does he do? Right again. Using your industry. But for class rooms? No. For war. Read link 3 through 4.

8- GRID Lab:
https://archive.today/FwKNU
https://archive.today/avR4m
https://archive.today/7fpeE

Remember GRID lab? You should, we have talked about this before. Guess what they are involved with. Game Research and Immersive Design.

9- /pol/ Is Always Right:
https://archive.today/QnNhf
https://archive.today/Zb3HS
https://archive.today/sR0dr
https://archive.today/dLyou
https://archive.today/hrsC5

More information on a certain country and people we are all familiar with. Don't believe me? Read the fourth link and look at all the cohorts they have. Even IBM is in on this one.

10- Microsoft:
https://archive.today/ckmwz
https://archive.today/XzcDZ
https://archive.today/xSlir
https://archive.today/gyI45
https://archive.today/dJhxO
https://archive.today/35rdH
https://archive.today/3PF0X
https://archive.today/y2dWt
https://archive.today/SsXsU

This should really come as no surprise to you thus far given all the digging that have been done on Microsoft. Read on to understand why. They have put money into Games research, Games for "learning" have been pushing for digitized class rooms and is over all REALLY shoving their way into academia.

Then there are people like Peter Lee who is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research who has, you guessed it been involved with DARPA.

Danah Boyd who did not even bother to capitalize her name, is a "principal researcher" and pretty much a glorified cultural blogger.

11- The Itos:
https://archive.today/D7FKx
https://archive.today/YeX14

Both involved in cultural politics, both involved in Digital Media.

12- The One Ring To Fool Them All:
https://archive.today/uUYOL
https://archive.today/s7Din
https://archive.today/yMXgP
https://archive.today/Z1yY6
https://archive.today/Kp092
https://archive.today/ry957

Among here you will notice lots of names start repeating themselves, especially the MacArthur Foundation.

13- Dr. Bob Appelman:
https://archive.today/wm8HZ
https://archive.today/iVfTv
https://archive.today/n8S8R

An apple a day will sadly not keep Bob away. This Doctor is knee deep in Common Core standards, using games as education and surprise, He was the Board Secretary 2010-2012 for DiGRA.

14- Fatality. Literally:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_X
https://archive.today/JYLtr
https://archive.today/OqIFk
https://archive.today/cfGEy
https://archive.today/LfcG3
https://archive.today/rgoc9
https://archive.today/AlCe2
https://archive.today/26VGt
https://archive.today/tMU6w

Mortal Kombat X is developed by High Voltage Software. So who are these people? The results may surprise you. Read on for more understanding.

15- DiGRA:
https://archive.today/jEQhZ

If you don't recognize these names or realize why this is bad, then shame on you. These people are all involved in narrative based around Gaming and Academia.

16- IGDA:
https://archive.today/6PtP3
https://archive.today/ihItF
https://archive.today/YtQmc
https://archive.today/3SQ7a
https://archive.today/BzoYl
https://archive.today/Ifvw6

See Board of Directors, specifically Marilyn, Karen and Bob Fries all of which spent all their time with Microsoft. Yeah. Even Bill is in this strange picture. Guess who Karen Fries knows. Melinda French Gates. And hey, Gamasutra will be thrown into the mix, just because.

17- Geogrify:
https://archive.today/oPDrA
http://archive.today/qgIFi
http://archive.today/jXdEW
http://archive.today/b6jPI

We have been here before, so get ready to be reminded. For all those not familiar see:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sl58sg
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sl591g

18- IGGI:
https://archive.today/E43Wd
https://archive.today/h9xEx

Involved with Gamification, academia and wow, look at all those industrial partners.

19- Heather Kelley:
https://archive.today/wgVXr
https://archive.today/gLuAF
https://archive.today/N0a9e
https://archive.today/kfywn

Get a load of this goy. Pushing games into Academia, involved in the GDC and Feminism, has sponsors like EA, Fox Sports, Intel, Microsoft, NASA. My my, almost all the bases are covered there.

20-Freeplay:
https://archive.today/ct0iU
https://archive.today/02e8y
https://archive.today/RV9hT

The director Dan Golding is a critic, journalist, and a sessional lecturer at The University of Melbourne and also on board with the IGDA. He also published the lovely article "The End of Gamers".

21- Sherry Jones:
https://archive.today/XHl2n
https://archive.today/H1FoS
https://archive.today/aVsDW
https://archive.today/AZZVh

"Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Game Studies Instructor. My pedagogy is an integration of theories from philosophy" This one is pretty blatant. Another figure head in the bigger picture of pushing games into academics and hey, they even used us at our own expense to push that narrative. How nice of them.

22- More DiGRA, More IARPA, More Sirius:
https://archive.today/0iL75
https://archive.today/NZU6Y
https://archive.today/zePSy
https://archive.today/R89ev


Welcome to the bridge. You are crossing over the border from simply Games Journalism to the Academia that fuels it now. What you need to understand is why Academia is going to loop right around back to journalism where you will feel at home. You will find yourself more into academia because that and hard news goes hand in hand. Academia as it is now, cites news reports and trash like that. Those news articles and reports rewrite history and academia deals in that very subject both on a societal and cultural level. These people rewrite history right under your very noses every day.

Welcome to Disk 2 of this RPG.

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