How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong
It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the…
The Case Of The Disappearing Nancy Drew Video Games
On March 25, 2015, the weather in Bellevue, Washington was just warming up enough to play hacky sack, a favorite…
The Story Behind Square Enix's Failed Latin America Video Game Division
In the summer of 2013, Square Enix sent a small team of representatives to Latin America for an ambitious business…
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…
How The Makers Of Mafia III Lost Their Way
In mid-2016, a few months before the release of their first game, Mafia III, the developers at Hangar 13 in Novato,…
BioWare Doubles Down On Anthem As Pressure Mounts
Over the past few months, BioWare has essentially transformed into a single-game studio as it harnesses its teams to…
The Collapse Of Visceral's Ambitious Star Wars Game
It seemed like a surefire hit: a Star Wars take on Uncharted, published by Electronic Arts and developed by the…
The Story Behind Mass Effect: Andromeda's Troubled Five-Year Development
In 2012, as work on Mass Effect 3 came to a close, a small group of top BioWare employees huddled to talk about the…
Quality Assured: What It’s Really Like To Test Games For A Living
There’s an old commercial for Westwood College that’s become something of a running joke in the video game world. Two…
Crytek Closes Five Studios After Rough Year
After a year of financial hardship, Crytek is closing its studios in Hungary, Bulgaria, South Korea, China, and Turkey,…
Ex-Crytek Artist Looks To Sue Over Unpaid Salary
A former Crytek artist wants to sue the company for not paying its staff—and he’s crowdfunding a lawyer to make it…
Crytek Employees Say They're Not Getting Paid -- Again
The game company Crytek is again facing financial trouble and hasn’t paid many of its employees in months, according to…
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.…
Here's What Blizzard's Titan MMO Actually Was
For close to a decade, details about the multiplayer game that Blizzard called Project Titan have remained secret and…
Sources: Game Studio Red 5 Misses Payroll On Christmas [UPDATE]
Video game development studio Red 5, best known as the company behind the online game Firefall, missed payroll last…
The Curse of Kiseki: How One Of Japan's Biggest RPGs Barely Made It To America
One day in March of last year, video game writer Andrew Dice wrote out a check for all of his company’s money. He stuck…
The Messy, True Story Behind The Making Of Destiny
In the summer of 2013, months before they were supposed to ship their next video game, the game developers at Bungie…
How A Small Studio's Chance At The Big Time Died At Microsoft's Doorstep
One week in early February, three top employees from the independent game studio Darkside Games flew to Redmond,…
How LucasArts Fell Apart
In June of 2011, then-LucasArts president Paul Meegan spoke publicly about his plans for turning the company around.
Ubisoft's Game Developer 'Limbo'
One morning late last year, not long after Guillaume, a developer at Ubisoft Montreal, had finished working on his…