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'A creative director who rubbed himself up against staff in the elevator, soliciting for oral sex and drugging employees': Inside gaming giant Ubisoft's 'toxic' environment as FIVE senior staff behind Assassin's Creed resign and two are suspended
2020-07-13
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The French gaming giant launched the probe last month after troubling allegations of sexual misconduct and a 'toxic' working environment surfaced

  • Chief Creative Officer Serge Hascoet, the man behind Assassin's Creed and other blockbusters, has resigned effective immediately

  • Vice Presidents Tommy Francois and Andrien 'Escoblades' Gbinigie have also been suspended - each man faced at least three claims of misconduct

  • More than 20 other employees are currently under investigation with more departures likely, reports suggest

  • Ashraf Ismail, the creative director of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, stepped down from the company last month amid allegations of infidelity

  • ‘Ubisoft has fallen short in its obligation to guarantee a safe and inclusive workplace environment for its employees,’ the company said

People forget the rules of normal behaviour in a skunkworks situation — and the cleanup afterward reveals the destroyed lives. After the first year working in one such group, Mr. Wife negotiated a more normal assignment in the company; he could see where it was going, and did not want to be part of the crash at the end — despite the great strides they were making in the project itself.
Posted by:Skidmark

#5  My wife is the gamer.

I just like to watch the machine-human interaction. It's quite a thing, the way video games are going to be the new netflix, but will reach deeper and actually condition people.

A lot of the 'rainbow farting unicorn' crowd is bad at games, I reckon. They are trying to find an ingress into the minds who are good at games. Which will be difficult.
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-07-13 23:31  

#4  Haven't played the game; the movie was horrible.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-07-13 22:09  

#3  Well, the next Ass Creed game probably won't have the 'look to mecca and pray' button. maybe less anti-christian too ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-07-13 21:55  

#2  I would say that video games are significantly less messed up, only because of the large number of small companies in the field that manage to produce large numbers of quality, profitable, and relatively popular games each year (as opposed to most other forms of entertainment, which are dominated by just a couple giant companies).
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick   2020-07-13 13:13  

#1  Meanwhile, Naughty Dog's boss puts himself in sex scenes in his games.

The industry is as messed up as any other media producer.
Posted by: charger   2020-07-13 00:41  

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