Crunch culture continues to play a major role in video game development, and many devs understandably want to avoid this stressful kind of situation. Now, Cyberpunk 2077 devs are reportedly being ...

The Overwatch League has embraced a fan's crunch time meme after viewers criticized it for a crunch time Cheez-It ad. The Cheez-It ad is just one criticism that fans had for the Overwatch League in ...

Intergalactic, announced in 2024, is going to be the most “ambitious” Naughty Dog game to date. This definitely has raised ...

Kate Edwards likes to do cosplay (costume play) as characters like Thor, a valkyrie, Indiana Jones, and Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones. That may give her the fortitude to handle her next big ...

No one likes hearing about developers going into a crunch stage. If you enjoy the video game industry and keep tabs on what’s going on with various studios or your favorite IPs, you may have come ...

The International Game Developers Association is measuring the “crunch time” practices, or mandatory uncompensated overtime required to finish games, at major game companies. The group is measuring ...

Alex Co has been writing about games for 15 years and running, and is a huge fan of online shooters and anything horror related. Game development culture still involves "crunching" despite ...

For months, Andrés Vásquez’s days working on the first-person shooter game “Doom” blended into one another. A quality assurance tester for id Software in Texas, he spent 10 hours a day sitting at a ...

A cultural reset is necessary, and a closer look at how the open-source community works offers a path forward for both tech ...

Shane Mason, a Solidarity Federation member, libcom poster and games industry worker writes about the practice of 'Crunch Time' - the long hours of unpaid overtime in the games industry and the ...

One of the oldest and simplest tenets in sports analytics can be summarized like this: trust points over wins. Call it Pythagorean expectation, point differential, Hollinger Power Ranking, whatever.

The end of the semester must be near because nearly all the new faculty members I met last week were holding their breath, trying to keep their heads above water, and praying for the end of the ...