The Daily Dose

The Steam discussion board is an ugly mess right now. The forums dedicated to Assassin’s Creed‘s yet-to-be-released tenth instalment, Origins, have been flooded by a barrage of toxin-infused hate speech. To give you a feel for the scale of the influx, there has been an upward of 100 pages of threads with bigoted spam and trolling. The trolling consists mostly of empty-headed slurs, elaborate mockery of political correctness and the basic tenets of human decency, as well as ironic criticism aimed at the game’s lack of gender diversity. It remains unclear exactly where the acidic deluge is coming from, but…

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