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Report: Awful King Kong Game Was Made In A Year By Overworked Devs
2Unsurprisingly, the much-memed King Kong game that launched this week appears to have been made devs toiling under terrible conditions.
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Xbox Head Defends Bethesda In Wake Of Crunch Allegations
At an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Xbox addressed the growing employee concerns about labour conditions at Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company, ZeniMax. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, said he was “confident” that the studio was not crunching, and that it was “unfair” to attribute crunch culture to only Bethesda.
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New Witcher Game Director Promises No Crunch Despite Studio History Of Crunch
Yesterday CD Projekt Red announced a “new saga in The Witcher franchise.” As part of a new multi-year collaboration with Epic Games focused on open-world design, the game will be made in Unreal Engine 5 rather than the studio’s own REDengine. It won’t be The Witcher 4, but that’s what people are calling it in…
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Surprising No One, Pathfinder Still Incredibly Confusing In Video Game Form
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, the recently released character RPG developed by Owlcat Games, seems really neat. I like the writing so far and the character work seems solid. But holy shit, it has possibly the most overwhelming character creator I’ve ever touched. If your game asks me to process 25 different classes, each of…