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Gamer suspended over name of W.Va. town: Fort Gay

Jennifer Vanasco — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:00:03 +0000

(Morgantown, W. Va.) Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming(...)

Gaymers can go “gay” on Xbox LIVE

logointern1 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:00:38 +0000

Xbox LIVE now allows the “gay.” And the “transgender.”

In an update to Microsoft’s Terms of Use and Code of Conduct policy, Xbox 360 gamers are now allowed to create profiles that use(...)

XBox Hate

chagmionantoine — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:14:52 +0000

Hateful words and acts aren’t limited to the real world – they’re even more intense in some cases in the virtual world. 365 has an exclusive interview with a lesbian XBox gamer who says she was verbally and even sexually assaulted during a game. Microsoft’s profile policies may be part of the problem. Chagmion Antoine [...]

Ruby-Sachs: XBox Live Update

ERubySachs — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:21:06 +0000

The first news of Teresa’s removal from the XBox Live playing site was posted Wednesday afternoon. By yesterday afternoon, MTV news had an interview with a Microsoft official who backtracked(...)

Ruby-Sachs: XBox Lets Harassment of Gay Players Go Unchecked

ERubySachs — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:23:02 +0000

When I worked as an intern at a news magazine in New York I wrote a story about a video game called “America’s Army.” It was an online war simulator sponsored by the U.S. military to assist(...)