harassment
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Ubisoft Employees Have ‘Grave Concerns’ Over Toronto Studio’s Misconduct Allegations
There’s a story some people tell at Ubisoft Toronto, the studio currently finishing one of this fall’s bigger planned releases, Watch Dogs: Legion. It goes something like this: Maxime Béland, one of its co-founders and, until last week, a 20-year veteran of Ubisoft, allegedly choked a female employee at a work party. Some heard it…
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The Cost Of Being A Woman Who Covers Video Games
Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010.
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Epic Store Rage Has Gotten Out Of Hand
The developers of cutesy Animal Crossing–Pokemon mashup Ooblets just had a weekend from hell. After trying to preempt a tidal wave of rage over their newly announced Epic Games Store exclusivity, they got hit with a swirling tsunami of foaming-at-the-mouth anger, up to and including death threats and anti-Semitic hoaxes. This is the worst overreaction…
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Pro Removed From $1.4 Million Magic Tournament Accused Of Harassing Women
On Thursday, one of the most prominent players in the Magic: The Gathering scene was unceremoniously dropped from this weekend’s first-ever $US1 million ($1.4 million) tournament for the strategy card game. Since then, as questions have been raised about the unspecified reasons behind Turtenwald’s removal, sources have told Kotaku that the player has engaged in…