Journalist Leigh Alexander penned an article for the website Gamasutra criticising the game industry's continuing focus on young white males despite the varied demographic of gamers - and created a firestorm of online abuse.

The Intel corporation has bowed to an online campaign asking for it to withdrew its advertising from the Gamasutra site.

It is part of a wider controversy known as #gamergate about the apparent misogyny within the gaming community.