Podquisition 345: Give Us A Boost, Would Ya?

But for God’s sake, wash your filthy hands.

Games we played this week include:

The Great Ragtime Show (8:35)

Cooking Mama Cookstar (16:45)

The Evil Within 2 (23:30)

Train Simulator (30:10)

Castle Crashers (32:50)

Samurai Warriors 5 (34:55)

Neo: The World Ends With You (41:30)

News things talked about in this episode:

More Activision/Blizzard, More Problems (37:30)

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/7kvm8g/activision-it-worker-secretly-filmed-colleagues-in-office-bathroom

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-07-31-more-activision-blizzard-allegations-emerge-as-former-dev-calls-for-industry-unionisation

https://kotaku.com/activistion-blizzard-faces-second-lawsuit-over-first-la-1847415904

https://kotaku.com/blizzard-president-j-allen-brack-is-stepping-down-1847412696

https://kotaku.com/what-really-happened-at-that-blizzcon-panel-according-1847408469

But we haven’t forgotten about Ubisoft (53:40)

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-07-28-ubisoft-employees-sign-open-letter-slamming-managements-empty-promises-following-last-years-toxic-work-culture-allegations

Maybe unions are a good idea? (56:25)

https://www.wowhead.com/news/employees-form-abk-workers-alliance-send-new-letter-to-kotick-and-activision-323658

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