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Joystiq

Owner: AOL

Editor-in-Chief: Ludwig Kietzmann

Boycott: Yes

Joystiq was a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 by Peter Rojas of Engadget as part of the Weblogs, Inc. family of weblogs, now owned by AOL as part of the AOL Brand Group.

Sometime in February 2015, Joystiq was shut down and its staff let go, though Engadget absorbed it.

Role in GamerGate

On 26 Aug 2014 Joystiq's Alexander Sliwinski‏ wrote:

Before I'm asked, @Joystiq standard policy is for writers not to contribute to game related Kickstarter, Patreon, etc.

In 2014, Ludwig Kietzmann penned the "We Are Always Fighting" article were he calls the Gamergate Twitter hashtag a "harassment" campaign.

In that same year, Joystiq was spreading around a fake anti-harassment petition signed by hundreds of video game developers.

Pre-Gamergate Controversies

• Justin McElroy's non-review of Nier, where he missed an early-game quest marker and spent an hour fishing in the wrong area, calling the game "hazardous to his sanity."

• Reddit user otimus reported being banned by Joystiq's Chris Grant in June 2011 for a comment describing an interview with a publisher as having "basically served to regurgitate cooperate PR".[13][14]

Staff

Members of GameJournoPros:

• Ludwig Kietzmann - Joystiq Editor-in-Chief (January 2012-)
• Susan Arendt - Managing Editor
• Xav De Matos - Feature content director
• Richard Mitchell - Reviews content director
• Sinan Kubba - Contributing editor
• Anthony John Agnello - Community manager. Also with The AV Club, Edge, Fast Company
• Alex Rubens - IGN, G4TV, PCWorld, Official Xbox Magazine, Polygon, @Gamer Magazine, Games Radar, Joystiq, Kotaku, Destructoid, Tech Hive, Game Informer
• Daniel Starkey - Eurogamer, GameSpot, Joystiq, Kotaku
• Heidi Kemps - Freelance, Joystiq
• Jason Venter - Honest Gamers Editor in Chief, IGN, Gamespot, GamesRadar, Joystiq
• Jeffery Matulef - US News Editor at Eurogamer (Former AV Club, G4TV, Paste, Joystiq, OXM)
• Jonathan Deesing - Joystiq
• Justin McElroy - Joystiq (former), Polygon, managing editor
• Sincerelysophie (Sophie/Sam Prell) - Joystiq, G4, Destructoid

Others:

• Alexander Sliwinski - News content director
• Jess Conditt - senior reporter
• Danny Cowan - contributing editor
• Mike Suszek - contributing editor
• Earnest Cavalli - contributing editor
• Thomas Schulenberg - weekend editor
• Sam Prell - weekend editor

Previous Joystiq staff:

• Christopher Grant - Editor-in-Chief (February 2007 - January 2012), left to form Polygon
• James Ransom-Wiley managing editor
• Kevin Kelly - features editor
• Justin McElroy - reviews editor
• Griffin McElroy - editor
• J.C. Fletcher - editor
• Mike Schramm - editor
• Andrew Yoon - East Coast Editor
• Randy Nelson - West Coast Editor

Trivia

Joystiq has a Steam curator/group: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/37332/?appid=220440

See Also

• Polygon