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Jeff Strain, a longtime industry veteran and regular company founder has penned a letter urging the game development world and his own employees to unionize.
Strain’s letter comes after a week of explosive headlines driven by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s lawsuit against Activision Blizzard for allegedly fostering a culture of sexual harassment and discrimination.
Strain, a former Blizzard employee who worked on
Diablo II, wrote in a letter shared by IGN that none of the allegations surprised him, and he has now become convinced that unionization is the solution to these problems.
Naughty Dog Wishes It Was Working on New Jak & Daxter Game
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What will the next game from The Last of Us and Uncharted studio Naughty Dog be? Probably not a new entry in the classic Jak & Daxter franchise, but co-president Evan Wells wishes it would be. Speaking alongside Insomniac Games Ted Price during an episode of the Game Maker s Notebook series and picked up by VGC, the two chat about whether fan requests for a new Jak & Daxter title are received or not.
Evan Wells said: We do, in fact. We’ve had a couple of Twitter campaigns where people have been tweeting us every single day [saying] ‘I want a new Jak & Daxter, I want a new Jak & Daxter’, and they aren’t just simple 280-character tweets, they have Photoshopped memes and everything they’re including on a daily basis, and the effort has got to be significant. However, unfortunately for those committed fans, Wells categorically rules out a new game from Naughty Dog. And I hate to break it to them, [but] we