Rami Ismail of Vlambeer condemns harassment that shut down a women's gaming meetup in Barcelona.
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Indie game leader Rami Ismail condemns harassment that shut down Spanish women’s gaming event (update)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 3 min

A group called Gaming Ladies scheduled a women’s gaming event in Barcelona, Spain, but the event’s sponsor, King, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, decided to shut down the gathering this week due to harassment by trolls.

That prompted Rami Ismail, a prominent indie game developer and cofounder of Nuclear Throne developer Vlambeer, to condemn the harassment that led to the shutdown. He did so at the beginning of his talk at Gamelab, an international game industry event in Barcelona. The incident is the latest in several years of harassment issues in games tied to the reactionary hate-mob Gamergate movement, and it comes shortly after feminist Anita Sarkeesian faced hostile YouTubers at the recent VidCon event.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.