Like most weeks, there’s a lot of bad news this week, as we talk through the death by restructuring of Humble Games and Ubisoft making everything worse by both-sidesing racism. Then we pull out of a nosedive with a SAG-AFTRA strike and the formation of a massive game dev union at Blizzard, complete with a little union 101 session courtesy of a listener’s questions and quotes from World of Warcraft senior producer Samuel Cooper!
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Mentioned this week
Assassin's Creed Developers Didn’t Have To Explain Their Game
Kazuma Hashimoto on Ubisoft bullshit
Humble Games Lays Off All Employees, Carries On In Name Only
Humble Games ‘Restructuring’ Shows There’s No Easy Answer to Gaming’s Layoff Crisis
World of Warcraft Devs Form Blizzard’s First Wall-to-Wall Union 3 Years After Walkout
Five Years Later, Fire Emblem: Three Houses’ Best Character Is Still Edelgard
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