Neil Druckmann and Evan Wells have shared their thoughts on crunch in the games industry. Naughty Dog co-presidents said that while there is no one solution for this issue, game studios shouldn’t prohibit passionate devs from working on a project overtime.

Chinese tech companies have very strict working rules, with many employees having to work six days a week, from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM. However, Tencent-owned studio Lightspeed & Quantum, known for developing PUBG Mobile, decided to make a few changes to this system.

CD Projekt executives took the responsibility for Cyberpunk 2077‘s buggy release. They also changed the system for bonus payouts to the devs.

Just like The Witcher 3 five years ago, Cyberpunk 2077 is debuting in an already “famously buggy state.” This is despite mandatory crunch that lasted for more than a year for at least some devs at CD Projekt RED.

Eliza is the latest title from Zachtronics that took everyone by surprise. In contrast to the programming puzzle games the studio is famous for, Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it.

Naughty Dog is behind some of the most beloved titles of all times including The Last of Us and the Uncharted series. The studio is also unique in not having producers or production managers to run things. Instead of conventional managerial structure, the company relies on department leads to steer production processes. Sounds very cool, right? Nobody to impose crunch on developers. Except it’s not that simple.

Warframe has been around for seven years, with new content arriving at an impressive rate. Digital Extremes chief operating officer Sheldon Carter explains how the studio avoids crunch while maintaining a tight update schedule.

This week, European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that employers are to adopt a system to track the daily working hours of their employees.

Respawn CEO Vince Zampella announced that the studio would not be shipping new Apex Legends content on a weekly basis, per Gamasutra. Instead, the game will receive season-by-season updates

Polygon interviewed Epic Games staff about the success of Fortnite and the stress it brought on the team.

Gameinformer joins the industry-wide conversation about casualties of unfortunate production practices. Former employees of Telltale Games spoke to the magazine to relate their heart-breaking story.