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Screenshots of a post on Glassdoor criticizing Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment appeared on Reddit…
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Most video games are too long. This common sentiment gets batted around…
Jun 22
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Scavenging for vital crafting items is a huge part of The Last of Us Part 2, but Ellie also spends her time in the…
May 1
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Earlier this week what appeared to be major spoilers from The Last of Us Part II leaked on YouTube and Reddit. Sony…
Mar 12
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One Friday night last month, some artists at the video game studio Naughty Dog were working on their latest game…
Jan 17
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These days, most video game fans are sympathetic to delays. They recognize that more time makes for better games,…
Apr 23 2019
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Crunch is a widespread disease in the gaming industry, sometimes forcing developers to pull 16-hour workdays or…
Nov 8 2018
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This year, game players have learned many uncomfortable truths about video game crunch. If what happened on the Warfr…
Oct 28 2018
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Today on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking about crunch, a complicated issue that affects us all in a lot of ways.…
Oct 25 2018
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When you’ve been reporting on a subject for a long time, you can feel when the winds are beginning to shift, and in…
Oct 23 2018
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In the final year of development on Red Dead Redemption 2, the upcoming Western game, the top directors decided to…
Oct 15 2018
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It’s long been an open secret in the video game industry that the prestigious developer Rockstar embraces overtime,…
Sep 24 2018
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Telltale Games employees were surprised when CEO Pete Hawley announced the closure of the company at a staff-wide…
May 10 2018
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Indie publisher Devolver Digital is releasing a new Super Nintendo game that looks to raise awareness of video game…
May 2 2018
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Game developer Shane Neville is no stranger to crunch. He claims that while he was at Electronic Arts in the late…
Apr 20 2018
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Crunch is one of the gaming industry’s biggest issues. Devs work countless extra hours to get games out the door,…
Mar 26 2018
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There’s been a lot of talk in recent weeks about fairness and transparency in the video game industry. On Kotaku…
Jan 14 2018
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Reports in three separate French outlets depict a pattern of inappropriate behavior, sexist and homophobic jokes,…
Oct 26 2017
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There’s an article in the New York Times today about crunch in the video game industry and how it destroys people’s lives. The writer seems like a real jerk, but the op-ed is worth reading.
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In February of 2011, fresh off nine months of 80-hour work weeks, Jessica Chavez took a pair of scissors to her…