Warframe Fans Ask Developers To Avoid Crunch
This year, game players have learned many uncomfortable truths about video game crunch. If what happened on the Warframe…
We All Sometimes Struggle With Work-Life Balance
Today on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking about crunch, a complicated issue that affects us all in a lot of ways.…
More And More Game Makers Are Talking About Crunch
When you’ve been reporting on a subject for a long time, you can feel when the winds are beginning to shift, and in…
Inside Rockstar Games' Culture Of Crunch
In the final year of development on Red Dead Redemption 2, the upcoming Western game, the top directors decided to add…
'We Were Working 100-Hour Weeks,' Red Dead Redemption 2 Head Writer Says, Then Clarifies
It’s long been an open secret in the video game industry that the prestigious developer Rockstar embraces overtime, and…
Telltale Employees Left Stunned By Company Closure, No Severance [Update]
Telltale Games employees were surprised when CEO Pete Hawley announced the closure of the company at a staff-wide…
New Super NES Game Is All About The Dangers Of Crunch
Indie publisher Devolver Digital is releasing a new Super Nintendo game that looks to raise awareness of video game…
20 Years Of Crunch Take Their Toll On A Game Developer
Game developer Shane Neville is no stranger to crunch. He claims that while he was at Electronic Arts in the late ‘90s,…
Game Studio's 'Joke' About 90-Hour Work Weeks Did Not Go Over Well
Crunch is one of the gaming industry’s biggest issues. Devs work countless extra hours to get games out the door,…
Why One Indie Studio Gives Every Employee The Same Salary
There’s been a lot of talk in recent weeks about fairness and transparency in the video game industry. On Kotaku…
David Cage's Quantic Dream Accused Of Being A Toxic Workplace [UPDATE]
Reports in three separate French outlets depict a pattern of inappropriate behavior, sexist and homophobic jokes, and…
There’s an article in the New York Times today about crunch in the video game industry and how it destroys people’s…
The Horrible World Of Video Game Crunch
In February of 2011, fresh off nine months of 80-hour work weeks, Jessica Chavez took a pair of scissors to her hair.…
Podcast: When Is 'Crunch' OK?
Is mandatory overtime an integral part of game development or a systemic issue that should be completely eliminated?…
Game Industry Veteran Writes Horrifying Article In Defense Of Poor Working Conditions [UPDATE]
This weekend on Venturebeat, game industry veteran Alex St. John published a hot new contender for worst article of the…
10 Big Myths About Video Games, Debunked By The People Who Make Them
Today, more people than ever before are playing video games...but most people still don’t actually understand how games…
What It's Like To Crunch On A Video Game
It’s hard to understand what really goes into game development until you’ve heard the stories firsthand.
Crytek Dev Calls Dinner Tweet 'Boneheaded,' Praises Work Conditions
After a couple of weeks of silence, we're finally hearing from people who worked at Crytek, the game development studio…
Examining Quality Of Life In The Games Biz
Obvious sentence of the day: It takes atomic tons of effort and man (or woman)-hours to build a game. The game industry…