June: Work from home interlude

May also might have been a lesson for Musk—he stayed pretty quiet about games for a while after that. He had other things to worry about, anyway, including an ongoing $258 billion lawsuit alleging Musk facilitated a Dogecoin pyramid scheme and needing to tell people how necessary in-person work is (it’s not).

Remotely-working game developers know the truth. After Musk sent Tesla employees an email with the subject line “Remote work is no longer acceptble [sic],” devs on Twitter had to disagree.

“The video game industry creates way more exciting products than a Tesla,” Kotaku senior writer Ethan Gach reported PlayStation animator Robert Morrison saying. “And we are all thriving working remote.”

“A writer from Eidos Montreal, meanwhile, pointed out that her team’s ‘ideas and innovations’ weren’t suffering as a result of cutting down on long office commutes,” Gach continued.

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