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Independent Games Festival host denounces Internet hate and Gamergate, gets standing ovation

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nathan Vella got a standing ovation tonight at the close of the Independent Games Festival, the awards show for indie games at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. He did so by denouncing Internet hatred.

The inspiring comments from the head of Capybara Games, an indie games developer, highlighted a terrible seven months for the industry under the shadow of Gamergate, a Twitter movement that started with a spat between lovers, morphed into a movement about games journalism ethics, and then led to the Internet harassment of many of the game industry’s outspoken female developers.

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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.