Anyone who doesn't think that this problem isn't something fairly unique to gaming needs to wake up.
This doesn't happen in theatre, opera, film, academia, literature, whatever. That's not an exaggeration. It doesn't. Even at their most vitriolic, I've never seen any creator/critic from any of those industries have their private lives publicly displayed for all to abuse. It's embarrassing. Well, I'm truly embarrassed.
Video games is a medium that is displaying all the right signs of maturity: self-reference and parody, discussion of complicated themes and issues, confluence of visual aesthetic and gameplay mechanics, purposeful adaptation of art styles. And yet the level of immaturity that pervades the community is frightening, destructive, and hateful.
It doesn't exactly fill me with hope.