Published 6 Mar, 2021 There have been a lot of reports into crunch culture at game studios over the past few years, but those stories have often excluded mention of work outsourcing studios. These are companies with names you won't know, but which are often responsible for a lot of the art, testing and other duties on blockbuster games. In their latest video, YouTube channel People Make Games spoke to 19 current and former developers at two outsourcing studios in Southeast Asia about the work they do, and the ways in which crunch is being shipped overseas. The video focuses on a handful of examples, including CD Projekt Red's outsourcing of work on Cyberpunk 2077, and Activision Blizzard's outsourcing of work on WarCraft 3: Reforged. It takes pains to underline that these are just examples of a more widespread practice, however. Outsourcing happens on nearly every major mainstream videogame.