'Overwatch,' 'League of Legends' among games players report threats, hate speech, ADL says

Sigma is the 31st hero in the video game Overwatch. Video game playing fields are too often venomous playing fields. A bisexual player in Activision Blizzard's popular online first-person shooter game "Overwatch" reported being sick to his stomach after being subjected to transphobic and homophobic slurs. A Jewish player says he was told in an unnamed online game that he belonged in Auschwitz. And an African American participant claimed to be harassed in yet another multiplayer game for "sounding black." These were among the U.S. online gamers who anonymously voiced their experiences as part of a new survey on gaming and harassment, released today by the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Technology & Society.