Given that a lot of the articles surrounding #GamerGate have been some of the most depressing and abhorrent stuff one could imagine – all involving the video game industry – I decided it was time to take a break and go over some of the good stuff following some positive articles that have been popping up.

There’s a succinct and pretty cool piece over on GamesNosh that highlights some of the accomplishments of the #GamerGate movement, including things like raising $5,400 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, donating more than $71,140 to The Fine Young Capitalists’ IndieGogo that opened up an opportunity for a female developer to get her game made, and getting sites like Polygon, Kotaku, Destructoid and Defy Media to alter their policies.

It seems like all the good stuff happened in the first two paragraphs, eh? Well, there’s more where that came from.

More than a million tweets have gone out using the #GamerGate hashtag. Thanks RvS.

Because of #GamerGate an Australian gaming journalist came forward and exposed EA’s cover-up of 40,000 hacked user accounts. Those people were vindicated because of #GamerGate.

#NotYourShield managed to showcase a multicultural movement of minorities, majorities, those in the LGBTQ community and females of all types showcasing their support for #GamerGate. It was a victory that destroyed the radical justice warriors’ narrative that only “white cis males” had rallied against them.

Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers released a factual, insightful and educational video about sexism in gaming. I’m sure many of us would love to see more given that it addresses a controversial topic without browbeating gamers or developers about these issues (and it’s done in a manner that doesn’t include inciting flame-wars but relying on facts and critical analysis).

#GamerGate helped expose the Game Journo Pro List, which showcased that various writers within that group had slanted agendas and were willing to overlook the facts in order to push their own sociopolitical message. What’s more is that following the leak of the GJP, none of those within the group who had been actively anti-#GamerGate have published anymore hit pieces against the movement. Their credibility has been destroyed, and it now makes them look as if there were means to commit collusion to push the “Gamers Are Dead” agenda. Their silence is a victory unto itself.

Most importantly, though, is that there is a slow but steady shift in the narrative. The Escapist continues to put out fair and balanced reports; TechCrunch released an article that factually covers the timeline of events; and indie devs have rallied to the cause, thanks to sites like Niche Gamer.

We’ve also seen the rise of new websites for gamers to support, including but not limited to, GamerHeadlines, GamesNosh, Niche Gamer, Tech Raptor and even The Ralph Retort.

And despite all the censorship that canvassed much of the internet throughout August, we now have forums popping up in some of the most unlikely places showing support or gathering information surrounding #GamerGate. We have places like Something Awful, RPG Codex, Evil Avatar, Space Battles, Sherdog, the /r/KotakuInAction/ sub-reddit (even though it’s in Reddit’s ghetto and off the grid), Facepunch Studios’ forum, and even the FGC (fighting game community) have stepped in with their own thread on Shoryuken. All of these are chiming in and offering discussion in addition to the garrisons maintained by 8chan [might be NSFW, so be careful], Escapist forums and MMO-Champion.

[Update: It’s been brought to my attention that while some of these places allow for discussion of #GamerGate, the forums themselves may not necessarily be pro-#GamerGate.]

I know it sometimes seems like things are waning and the movement isn’t getting things done, but there’s a lot going on that’s just not being reported. However, the truth is slowly getting out and it’ll continue to break through the cracking ice that is the fickle lies held up by hubris and blindness.

Keep the pressure on. Keep using the #GamerGate hashtag. Keep fighting for transparency, accountability and the truth.

There’s a propaganda video going around that has managed to pull out some laughs and get everyone to feel a bit more at ease, especially given all the high-tension surrounding this controversy, so I’ll leave this oldie-but-a-goodie right here.