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Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate is a memoir by indie video game developer Zoë Quinn about their experiences as the target of Gamergate and in countering online abuse.
Industroyer [1] (also referred to as Crashoverride) is a malware framework considered to have been used in the cyberattack on Ukraine’s power grid on 17 December 2016. [2] [3] [4] The attack cut a fifth of Kyiv, the capital, off power for one hour and is considered to have been a large-scale test.
DragonFable is a free-to-play, online, browser-based, single-player, fantasy, role-playing game developed by Artix Entertainment and updated on a weekly basis. Players may access locked game content by upgrading to a premium account for a one-time fee .
"Crash Override", the protagonist's alias in the 1995 American crime film Hackers; The Crash Override Network, a support group (founded 2015) for victims of large scale online abuse; Crashoverride, a malware framework presumed to have been used in the 2016 cyberattack on Ukraine's power grid; Crash Override, a 2017 memoir by Zoë Quinn of the ...
Crash Override was founded by game developers Zoë Quinn and Alex Lifschitz, [6] and was staffed exclusively by victims of online abuse whose identities were kept anonymous outside the group. [7] Quinn and Lifschitz were subjected to online abuse during the Gamergate harassment campaign, with both receiving death threats and being doxxed. [8 ...
Zoë Tiberius Quinn [2] was born in 1987 and was reared in a small town near the Adirondack Mountains in New York. [3] Growing up, Quinn's favorite video game was Commander Keen, an MS-DOS game featuring an eight-year-old protagonist who builds a spaceship with items found around his house and then travels the galaxy defending the Earth.
Artix Entertainment has also released three animated shorts. The first, Artix Vs. the Undead, was made as a teaser for the DoomWood storyline in DragonFable. The second short, Death from Above, was released as a sneak peek to the MechQuest storyline and was developed by J6 of the Artix Entertainment staff, and can be viewed in the game MechQuest.
It is worth noting that the new Crash Override site may offer some practical support learned the hard way through Gamergate, which caused three women to flee their homes. The FBI offers help to game developers suffering harassment, death threats, while CyberAngels has more general advice.