industry
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This Week In The Business: Bulls**t Crunch
“Crunch is bulls**t.” — Failbetter Games CEO and creative director Alexis Kennedy talking about the problem the game industry has with ridiculous overtime and why crunch is not sustainable for game studios.
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This Week In The Business: Virtual Shots Fired
“In reality I see [virtual reality] as a very expensive Wii.” — Day Z developer Dean Hall, sharing his concerns about the new tech given how little is known about what games will sell and how big the market for it will be.
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This Week In The Business: Witness Pirates
QUOTE | “It seems The Witness is the #1 game on a certain popular torrent site. Unfortunately this will not help us afford to make another game!” – Indie developer Jonathan Blow talking about the unfortunate levels of piracy that he’s seen for his much-praised new game The Witness.
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This Week In The Business: Shinra Falls Again
“[Shinra Technologies] has found no prospective investors at this point, and therefore has to discontinue its business.” — Square Enix, explaining why it shuttered the cloud-gaming subsidiary founded by former Square Enix president Yoichi Wada.