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French newspapers Mediapart and Canard PC have teamed up and released a bunch of articles about the video game industry and its toxic practices.

The articles are available online [1] but they're in French and some of them are behind a paywall.

The situation got to the point where a labor union for video games creators, « Le Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo » (STJV) [2], was created in France last year. There are currently around 70 members (out of 5000+ video game related employees in France). A strike is currently on-going in Eugen Systems [3], a French studio author of RTS games like Steel Division.

[1] https://www.canardpc.com/online/crunch-investigation (French)

[2] https://www.stjv.fr/en/ (English)

[3] https://www.stjv.fr/en/2018/03/already-more-than-3-weeks-on-... (English)