Jason Schreier
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Nier: Automata’s Director: ‘I Might Be Broken In Some Way’
3Yoko Taro appears in his trademark Emil mask at the Game Developers Conference in San FranciscoPhoto: Jason Schreier (Kotaku) Without his mask, Yoko Taro looks like anyone else at the Game Developers Conference. He has a thin grey beard and wears a black hoodie with short, flowing sleeves that wouldn’t seem out of place at…
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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 Splitscreen, we speak with a studio head who takes things to the extreme, paying every employee the same exact wage.
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It’s Time For Game Developers To Unionise
Recently, in a small room inside the massive Moscone Center meeting complex, roughly 200 people crowded around a large table to conduct a challenging conversation about working in the video game industry. There was a single microphone, chauffeured from person to person by a sprinting staffer working the Game Developers Conference, which is running in…
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Ni No Kuni II: The Kotaku Review
It can be difficult, as a jaded adult, to appreciate a great fairy tale – one where the hero always wins and naivety is a character strength rather than something to grow out of. So it is with Ni no Kuni II. But if you can look past this game’s more childish tendencies, you’ll find…