Game developer Brianna Wu and her husband have been receiving extremely hateful threats, including death threats that forced them to flee their home.

Wu received violent rape threats from an anonymous Twitter user and this man posted her home address online.

Wu is the head of development at independent game publisher Giant Spacekat that released sci-fi action puzzle game, Revolution 60. After receiving venomous threats from a Twitter account called "Death to Brianna," she and her husband immediately contacted law enforcement. Twitter said this anonymous account has been suspended.

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Gamergate is a controversy in video game culture about issues of sexism, misogyny and journalistic ethics, especially conflicts of interest between video game journalists and developers. It's also about protecting the gamer identity.

Wu's tormentors apparently took issue with her memes mocking "Gamergate." After this, some users of 8chan began making memes threatening Wu.

Wu said she received extremely graphic, violent threats, including killing her children and other equally devastating threats.

Wu says the harassment started when someone posted her address in a specific Gamergate chatroom on 8chan and everything went haywire after that. Wu isn't the first female developer to experience hate from gamers that claim to support the Gamergate community.

This attack on female developers and critics alike began last August when the ex-boyfriend of game developer Zoe Quinn claims she slept with Nathan Grayson of Kotaku to gain positive reviews of her game, "Depression Quest."

Gamers on 8chan then started speculating about a feminist conspiracy to destroy the male dominated gaming industry and decried articles written about how gaming is dead and feminist rants about how women are depicted in video games. These assaults apparently caused the Gamergate movement to go berserk. 

Female game developers including journalists such as Anita Sarkeesian, Jenn Frank and Jennifer Alloway were blasted with violent threats that included rape threats and death threats mostly from anonymous gamers.

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