Operation DeepFreeze. That was the name appointed to a project being worked on by various anonymous diggers and put together by the spectacular infographic artist known in the social media space as Bone Golem. The purpose of the website is to chronicle the unethical behavior within the games journalism ring and broadcast it to the world.

As noted on the site’s about page…

“DeepFreeze is a journalism reference resource, conceived to supply a reader with easy-digestible information to determine the reliability of an individual writer or outlet. “DeepFreeze strives, whenever possible, for maximum objectivity — supplying factual information so that readers can form an opinion on their own.”

The site was made in the wake of #GamerGate since it was next-to-nigh impossible to get many larger gaming websites to report on or disclose corruption happening within their inner circles, this ranges from the conflicts of interests associated with developers dating journalists without disclosure, to the behind-the-scenes blacklisting and censorship happening within the game journalism arena.

Very similar to the GamerGate.me Wiki, the site has a categorical breakdown of the various transgressions documented within the gaming industry. There’s also a nice, big list of all the people involved in the gaming journalism sphere who have committed an ethical breach and the number of breaches they have committed. You can check out an example below of the “Censorship” category and the people who pop up.

There is a list of people for each category, including Cronyism, Corruption, Sensationalism, Dishonesty and even Harassment. It’s a simple site layout that’s easy to navigate and offers plenty of information with sources for each entry.

The website came about when many gamers and consumers using the GamerGate hashtag realized that many of the websites that came under fire for their ethical breaches were either unwilling to acknowledge wrongdoing or unwilling to report on the wrongdoing of their peers. DeepFreeze.it ultimately chronicles the misdoings of gaming journalists in an easy-to-read format, backed up with facts and sources and made so that everyone can easily head to Google (or to a lesser extent, Bing) and find out exactly what sort of corruption their favorite gaming pundit could be involved in.

The site also offers guest posts and articles, and will likely continue to see a lot of activity from gamers, consumers and ethics aficionados who want to examine some of the shady dealings that gamers have been begging journalists to address over the past eight months. The site notes in the about page that it may eventually evolve to include mainstream media corruption, but that may come later.

You can check out the minimalistic yet effectively informative DeepFreeze.it website right now.

Gaming journalists beware: there’s a dog on the prowl for a bone with your name on it.

(Main image courtesy of LisaM)