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The GameXplain Saga Highlights The Quiet Crunch Underneath Games Journalism – Kotaku Australia
Allegations around conditions at YouTube channel GameXplain have highlighted a bigger systemic crunch culture within all games coverage.
Over the past week or so, a group of former employees have gone public with their experiences working at GameXplain, one of the larger YouTube channels exclusively covering Nintendo content. Their tales are a familiar woe for anyone who has despaired at the state of games writing, blogging or journalism over the last several years, highlighting an industry culture of crunch that’s not far removed from game development itself.
The saga all began via an offhand comment made in Today’s News Tonight,…
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