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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...