The article in question is at http://kotaku.com/5971369/the-year-in-controversy
Kotaku is more of a blogging service than a true journalism site, just like most of the Gawker network of which it is affiliated. Gawker itself has gotten into trouble due to its political biases, as has other related sites, but for some reason Kotaku has decided to follow along with its parent. When reporting news, bias should be taken out of your writing, and those articles, such as this one, with editorial content should be labeled as such.
Owen Good has posted his article on Kotaku with his year summary, calling out all the controversies in the gaming world. Either by accident, or deliberately, Kotaku's own actions are not listed in the summary. Plus, one of the biggest controversies of the year is completely missed.
In interest of completeness, here are just some of the things missed:
1) The bankruptcy, and subsequent controversy, over Curt Schilling's 38 Studios. The fact the company got public financing from Rhode Island was a huge story, as Rhode Island's past and current governors bickered on who was right about loaning such a large amount to a company such as Schilling's. This will have later consequences, as states will now hesitate to loan money to software companies with unproven products. Later statements, about the high salaries some were receiving, and the bleeding of funding, combined with the decent, but not large enough sales, of Kingdoms of Amalur, added to the controversy. Leaked photos of the art of the MMO being developed by 38 Studios showed what could have been.
2) Though the sexist comments during the Street Fighter tournament was mentioned, nothing was mentioned about the banning of a top competitive player for League of Legends for his brutal trolling comments. Considering how much money League of Legends is generating, and the popularity of the game on broadcasting websites such as Twitch.tv, this story needs to be brought up as a game company (Riot Games) has finally shown the backbone to stand up against abusive language in their tournaments.
3) Related to #2, the controversy about including Hindu Gods in League of Legends competitor Smite was another controversy skipped completely in the Kotaku article. Many Hindu groups are up in arms about Smite including their pantheon in the game. Again, Smite's creators have shown the backbone to stand up against this pressure, something that is extremely noteworthy in this world of political correctness.
4) Kotaku's game bashing was not mentioned at all, but needs to be. Kotaku finds something offensive in a game, and has gone on tirades of multiple articles against that game in order to deliberately lower that game's sales and opinions. These are nothing more than blog rants disguised as news or general articles. Hitman: Absolution, The War Z, and especially Far Cry 3 have been subjected to article after article claiming racism, sexism, and other negative politically correct terms, all by writers with agendas not disclosed by Kotaku.
5) Sandy Hook's focus back again on violence in video games is something we at LagSpike have been fighting back against, but it was Kotaku to ginned up the entire 'OSCeasefire' debacle by backing the YouTube video calling for the 24 hour shooting game ban. Even though Kotaku helped start the controversy over this, it is not mentioned at all in their article. We at LagSpike.tv vehimently opposed this, proposing a counter demonstration. Supposedly, OSCeasefire, according to the ever reliable Kotaku, netted 50,000 gamers. However, only 3,000 gamers signed up on the Facebook event while over 19,000 refused to join in. On Twitter, the hashtag was taken over swiftly by others including this author, bashing the entire concept as counterproductive. However, do realize the owner of Kotaku/Gawker is anti-gun. Whether the editorial position pushed by Kotaku on this OSCeasefire was a reflection of its ownership has not been discussed.
Lastly, an item is included by Kotaku was included which this author, at least, believes fails to reach the level of belonging on the list. As much as the Leftists in charge of Kotaku and Gawker hate Colonel Oliver North, the man is a decorated veteran with gravitas. Hiring him to help sell Call of Duty was a brilliant move, and the only controversy it garnereed was from the extremists who associate Colonel North to Iran-Contra and Ronald Reagan. Now, this author admits a bias on this position as I have met Colonel North personally twice, and he is a very humble and gracious man. He was a great choice, especially now with the controversy with the NRA mentioned in #5 above, as Colonel North supports both video games and guns. Contrast that with other endorsements not mentioned as well: Snoop Dogg/Lion endorsing FIFA, Robert Downey Jr endorsing Call of Duty. etc.
This author is sure he has missed other controversies. It has been a long year, much of it tainted by the politics of the run for president. Next year will hopefully be better, and with that perhaps more people could actually take journalism classes out in the 'new media' to know what is news, what is opinion, and start labeling articles as such.