'I just broke down crying': Canadian video game creators face gruelling 'crunch' hours
By Eli Glasner · CBC News
In an industry built on fun, some employees are pushed to their breaking point
Canadian video game designer Osama Dorias works at his computer with his son sleeping on his shoulder in this picture from 2008. (Osama Dorias)
The video game industry long ago powered up from basement workshops to big business. The multiplayer game Fortnite now competes with Netflix in terms of the number of eyeballs they attract. In 2018, revenue for the U.S. gaming industry reached a new high score of $43.4 billion — far surpassing the film industry.
With big-name companies such as Ubisoft and BioWare, Canada is a major player — the world's third largest producer of video games, behind the U.S. and Japan.
But as the industry grows, crunch appears to be a bad habit that some companies have yet to break.
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