Sony's First party Studio, Insomniac Games, responded to a female ex employee, who declared considering suicide due to harassment while working at Insomniac Games:
"We were aware of the allegations made in a former employee's tweets today and had taken numerous steps to address them. For legal and privacy reasons we will not respond to individual allegations about specific former employees. (1/2)"
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
The new Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition has the community in an outrage after promising exclusive access to the new PvE mode for $250 USD.
$250? Do they not know all the other games that already exist or will be made in the future that can do similar?
This is for the hardcore people that have 2500 h in the game. They basically play that one game the whole year.
Oh and those same people are mad as hell at this... what a way to reward fans of your game and annihilate newcomers.
Good. Look into it and see if there is anything to it and act accordingly. I don't believe women or men. I believe in facts and evidence. If the woman has proof then show it, if not, then shut up and stop trying to hurt someone's career. Stop trying to tranish a whole studio because if you don't have any receipts then I don't believe a word you say.
If it turns out it was just innapropriate jokes and things of that nature, then the person should be reprimanded but NOT fired. Whatever it is, I'm glad the studio and Sony will get to the bottom of it. All I say is, DO NOT overreact.
It is like the gaming industry is having its own #MeToo movement with this, that Chris Avellone story, and this:
https://kotaku.com/wizards-...
It strikes me as odd that a person who claims that there are so many amazing people at insomniac that don't deserve harm directed towards them, would decide to go through twitter which is the most effective way to direct an angry mob towards the company. She also says, that she was universally loved at the company and has many friends there, yet she claims that there is a 'culture of hiding ugliness' and that she only had one ally at the company who was made misarable for fighting what he believes in (incidentally that 'ally' also doesn't work at Insomniac anymore).
She mentions that there were at least 3 sexual predators at Insomniac. According to her one left, one was fired and one still works at the company, because the evidence that was brought forward wasn't enough to determine 'who was in the right or wrong'.
For some reason the accuser decides to focus on the one dude that already got fired a long time ago and gives an example that paints the picture of a perverted idiot that verbally abused the accuser, by telling her how he wanted to have sex with her. Interestingly she says that he gave her weird vibes from the beginning and even after invading her personal space and telling inappropriate jokes and stories she still appreciated his company and went to him for advice many times. After clarifying to the pervert that she was in a relationship and asexual he stopped harassing her. It's amazing to me how often these type of cases go on forever without a clear message being sent to the misbehaving person.
Then the accuser claims that her career was throttled, because she spoke up. No evidence for this is presented other than the subjective perception of other people around her getting promotions, which the accuser admits they deserved, while she didn't get promoted.
She says that's just the tip of the iceberg and that there were a lot more incidents, but she doesn't know if she has the enrgy to tell them all.
I'm sorry, but if you decide to accuse a whole company of having a culture that silences people against speaking up to assholes and potentially even sex offenders you better be ready to answer some questions. How is it ok to incite such a turmoil and then say, I might not want to talk about the details anymore?
Here is the full thread so you can see for yourself: https://twitter.com/wuffles...
Why does the frequency of this sort of stuff always seem to skyrocket as elections approach? Weird trend. Like...months will go by and you don't hear much, then boom, it all hits at once.