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Terraria delays its next content update until the new year to avoid crunch
Some slightly disappointing but not unforeseen news from Terraria's quarters this past week, as the studio announced that it's going to be delaying its...
Star Citizen devs are being forced into mandatory unpaid overtime in order to make CitizenCon happen
While Star Citizen is making sure it keeps excitement up for CitizenCon 2024, behind the scenes the devs at CIG are being crunched to...
GDC’s 2024 industry survey: Game devs weigh in on AI, layoffs, unionization, RTO, and more
Every year, GDC conducts an industry-wide survey of game developers and compiles the results in its State of the Game Industry, the 2024 edition...
Ubisoft Paris is accused of developer crunch and poor project management by French game workers union
Solidaires Informatique, the French game workers union that has been working with employees at Ubisoft Paris since the developer's widespread sexual harassment claims came...
Unionizing ZeniMax QA workers claim ‘death from a thousand cuts’ thanks to crunch and low pay
Earlier this week, over 300 QA workers employed by ZeniMax, including those who work at Elder Scrolls Online's ZeniMax Online Studios and Fallout 76's...
New report on crunch at Diablo IV’s Blizzard Albany casts doubt on June 6, 2023, early access date
The Washington Post released a new expose of Diablo IV's Blizzard Albany yesterday afternoon, in which workers are skeptical about the June 6th early...
Rockstar devs call studio ‘a boys’ club transformed into a real company’ as it reels back crunch culture
Readers might recall a rather infamous episode related to Rockstar Games and the treatment of its devs during the creation of Red Dead Redemption...
Xbox head says reports of crunch at Fallout 76 studio are from a time when crunch ‘was just part of the industry’
"Times were different back then" can either be an explanation or a blanket excuse. Whatever side you fall on, that's effectively what was said...
Fallout 76 exposé reveals a culture of crunch and chaos from devs who snubbed MMOs
Kotaku dropped a scathing exposé of the Bethsoft studio behind Fallout 76 last night, and however bad you thought it was, it was probably...
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker media tour: An interview with Naoki Yoshida
One of the things that I've always respected about Naoki Yoshida as a director and producer is that the man is clearly deeply involved...
NCsoft Korea’s office literally turns away employees who have worked too many hours
It's not too terribly often we get the opportunity to report on gaming companies doing the right thing by its employees (even if it...
Apex Legends studio Respawn projects a firm anti-crunch stance
"We don't do crunch here" is the "ethically sourced whale blubber" label of the games industry -- and it's one label that Apex Legends'...
Don’t look now but Cyberpunk 2077 just got delayed for at least the third time, now to December
I know you're all going to be super surprised, but CD Projekt has gone back on claims that it would not delay Cyberpunk 2077...
CD Projekt Red goes back on its word regarding Cyberpunk 2077 crunch
Crunch -- the period of development time where studios enact overtime to get a product ready to ship -- is a controversial and harmful...
Apex Legends boss addresses developers suffering work-from-home burnout and crunch
The Apex Legends subreddit had a little tire fire this past Friday as a result of a Glassdoor review of developer Respawn Entertainment that...
Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed yet again, now to November 19
Back in January, we covered the news that Cyberpunk 2077 aka Keanu Online was being delayed from its April release date to September. Now,...
The push for games industry unionization expands with new initiative from major US union CWA
Unionization pushes have become a big discussion across the games industry for the last several years. The tipping point might just have been the...
EA Spouse was 15 years ago, and not much has changed in games development
When it arrived back in 2004, EA Spouse felt like a wakeup call. But now it's easy to mark how long it has been...
ZeniMax and Bungie are part of a joint effort to fight against gamedev crunch
People are becoming more and more aware of the abusive mill game developers are being ground against in order to release the titles we...
CD Projekt Red weighs in on crunch as Cyberpunk 2077 development gears up
Development crunch is a hot-button topic in the gaming industry these days, and the latest studio to take a stance on the matter is...
