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Podcast: The GamesIndustry.biz Microcast
Episode: Crunch and walkouts are failures of management - The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast
Description: James, Rebekah and Brendan discuss the latest industry headlines, which inevitably means continuing to talk about crunch. Picking up from our earlier episode, we discuss the latest stories of crunch and punishing work practices at NetherRealm Studios (as Brendan revealed in his article here:Â https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-05-03-netherrealms-self-sustaining-culture-of-crunch). We also touch on how developers themselves may be inadvertently perpetuating the cycle of crunch (as Brendan also discussed in his editorial here:Â https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-05-08-united-devs-stand-divided-they-crunch-opinion). We then discuss the latest from Riot Games where rumours of a em...