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Following a blog post last week describing unfair work conditions at Rockstar San Diego, a former Rockstar New York staffer spoke to MTV Multiplayer of the fear the East coast office instills in the developer's West Coast employees. More »
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An anonymous blogger filing under the heading "Rockstar Spouse" has penned a letter of complaint about working conditions at Red Dead Redemption development studio Rockstar San Diego. More »
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Obvious sentence of the day: It takes atomic tons of effort and man (or woman)-hours to build a game. The game industry may have a bit of a checkered history with the "QoL" or "Quality of Life" issue, but since the infamous ea_spouse dished on her husband's seemingly-endless eighty-five hour work weeks in 2004, the industry seems to have been taking a closer look at its practices. More »
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Working at EA isn't as soul crushing and relationship ruining as it was just three years ago, according to internal survey results provided to GameDaily. You may remember that the work environment at the super-publisher was nothing short of a bleak wasteland not too long ago, during the "EA Spouse" years, the dark times of unpaid overtime, when rank and file employees were unaware of corporate goals and toiled away without "commitment." All in the past. Mostly. More »
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Back before I wrote for Kotaku I was much like many of you, trying to look busy at work while actually keeping up with all of the latest gaming news, and one of the stories I loved following was that of the EA Spouse, an anonymous angry woman who called out Electronic Arts for their treatment of employees. Erin Hoffman is of course no longer anonymous, and in the latest issue of Game Developer magazine Paul Hyman takes a look at the long-lasting effects of Hoffman's actions as a crusader against employee injustice. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=271366&view=rss&microfeed=true Erin Hoffman, the original EA Spouse, is quoted in an article about BECTU's quest to unionize gamedevs saying that she thinks the lawsuits against Electronic Arts have changed the company for the better. More »
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EA Spouse, what hast thou wrought? First, you brought the mighty colossus — EA — to its knees by inspiring a $14.1 million dollar lawsuit against them for unpaid overtime. And now you've become a patron saint of another plaintiff in his suit against Activision. More »
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Do you remember the mysterious EA Spouse — the frustrated newlywed wife of an EA employee who spilled to the world the loathsome details of the way in which EA manipulate, extorted and overworked their employees, at the expense of employees' health and families? Her heart-felt outpouring sparked a few class-action lawsuits for unpaid overtime against EA and inspired hundreds of game designers to finally stand up against bullying employers. More »
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We got our hands on a hot little internal memo written by EA Senior VP Rusty Rueff that amounts to a mea culpa to the company More »
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Today sees more angry Electronic Arts employees and more angry posts, but this time at least one with a name attached. In the wake of the EA Spouse diatribe and news of an upcoming class action against the world More »
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More details are emerging about Electronic Arts More »
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An anonymous significant other of an anonymous Electronic Arts' programmer is railing against what they call the "unethical and illegal treatment" of employees by the multi-billion dollar game company. More »
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