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Last fall, nearly a year after the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, top Rockstar executive Jennifer Kolbe sent out…
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One Friday night last month, some artists at the video game studio Naughty Dog were working on their latest game…
Dec 13
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When I first met the co-founders of Yacht Club Games in October of 2016, at their sleek, ocean-adjacent offices in…
Sep 12 2019
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At E3 in June of 2015, the game designer David Crooks was hanging out across the street from the L.A. Convention…
Jun 26 2019
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One Friday afternoon a few weeks ago, the developers at Treyarch held a happy hour event to welcome the summer…
May 17 2019
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As Cyberpunk 2077 Development Intensifies, CD Projekt Red Pledges To Be 'More Humane' To Its Workers
Footage of the upcoming role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 has blown away fans so far, but coupled with that hype is a…
Apr 2 2019
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It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the…
Nov 6 2018
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On March 25, 2015, the weather in Bellevue, Washington was just warming up enough to play hacky sack, a favorite…
Oct 30 2018
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Aron Garst
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In the summer of 2013, Square Enix sent a small team of representatives to Latin America for an ambitious business…
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…
Apr 13 2018
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In mid-2016, a few months before the release of their first game, Mafia III, the developers at Hangar 13 in Novato,…
Jan 24 2018
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Over the past few months, BioWare has essentially transformed into a single-game studio as it harnesses its teams to…
Oct 27 2017
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It seemed like a surefire hit: a Star Wars take on Uncharted, published by Electronic Arts and developed by the…
Jun 7 2017
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In 2012, as work on Mass Effect 3 came to a close, a small group of top BioWare employees huddled to talk about the…
Jan 18 2017
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There’s an old commercial for Westwood College that’s become something of a running joke in the video game world.…
Dec 20 2016
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After a year of financial hardship, Crytek is closing its studios in Hungary, Bulgaria, South Korea, China, and…
Dec 14 2016
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A former Crytek artist wants to sue the company for not paying its staff—and he’s crowdfunding a lawyer to make it…
Dec 12 2016
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The game company Crytek is again facing financial trouble and hasn’t paid many of its employees in months, according…
Sep 26 2016
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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…
May 23 2016
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For close to a decade, details about the multiplayer game that Blizzard called Project Titan have remained secret…