NeoGAF in Disarray After Owner Accused of Sexual Assault

<p>Unless you&&num;8217&semi;ve been turning a blind eye to what&&num;8217&semi;s been going on in the film industry&comma; you are likely <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;newyorker&period;com&sol;news&sol;news-desk&sol;from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories">very aware<&sol;a> about Harvey Weinstein and the series of sexual assault&comma; rape&comma; and harassment claims laid against him&period; This has led to about two weeks of women and men coming out and revealing the sexual harassment that is almost systemic to Hollywood&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;hkm&period;com&sol;sandiego&sol;sexual-harassment&sol;">San Diego sexual harassment lawyers<&sol;a> are representing them&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a widespread problem in the industry and now people have amassed the courage to stand up and fight those who are ruining people&&num;8217&semi;s lives&period; Well&comma; the gaming industry might soon start its own cleansing of predators&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s starting with Tyler Malka &lpar;aka Evilore&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; owner of NeoGAF&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;&lowbar;KaltBluter&sol;status&sol;921852760978526208<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>NeoGAF went dark for a little while after sexual assault allegations were released against Malka &lpar;see&colon; above&rpar; and several mods created &&num;8220&semi;suicide threads&&num;8221&semi; asking to be permabanned from the popular gaming forum&period; Malka has been associated with despicable acts in the past&comma; and NeoGAF itself has never been set to a high standard&period; Cliff Bleszinski <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;therealcliffyb&sol;status&sol;479129693241614336">tweeted about the stigma<&sol;a> NeoGAF has had with developers he&&num;8217&semi;s known&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s nothing new for Malka or NeoGAF to be implicated in shady situations&comma; but now is the time when everything seems to be hitting the fan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These sexual assault allegations come not far from the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;former-naughty-dog-employee-says-he-was-fired-after-fil-1819557683">Naughty Dog allegations<&sol;a> &lpar;which&comma; in my opinion&comma; were handled extremely poorly by Naughty Dog and Sony&rpar;&comma; which came soon after the Weinstein accusations and the rest of Hollywood&&num;8217&semi;s revelations of sexual abuse within the industry&period; Right now&comma; Malka has not released a statement yet&comma; but is <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;DasHektor&sol;status&sol;921888947416059907">allegedly preparing one<&sol;a>&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ll see if he steps down or admits anything&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s clear that NeoGAF is in a state of disarray&period; As of the time of this writing&comma; I have only been able to get on the site once since it went down&comma; and most of the front page is new threads that are either asking to be banned&comma; wondering where to move discussions&comma; or are ignoring what&&num;8217&semi;s happening and no one is engaging with them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For now&comma; I just want to say on behalf of the staff of BagoGames that we stand beside anyone who has been mistreated in any way&comma; shape or form&period; Victims of sexual abuse may seek help from this <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;taylorring&period;com&sol;practice-areas&sol;sexual-abuse-sexual-assault&sol;">sexual assault attorney<&sol;a>&period; We cannot begin to understand the pain&comma; but we hope to help make the gaming industry a safer place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Sources&colon; NeoGAF&comma; Twitter<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;