This week on the UDP Broadcast, there has been an outbreak of terminations and misconduct between EA releasing 200 QA testers for Apex Legends from their Baton Rouge, LA studios, Nordic Games breaking the Sweedish Discrimination Act with investigateive help from Gender balance to investigate 2 men, and Activision blizard - AGAIN - for firing 2 QA workers for using strong language while in a group of peers when presented with the news that they would have to return to the office. 

We had no IDEA that JRPG was taken as a compartamentalized western concept for games coming from Japan.   @SkillUp  after going to Square Enix HQ in Japan and interviewing Naoki Yoshida - Yoshi-P - as a derragatory statement near the beginning of home console video game history. For as the positive connotation is now, we explorethe effect of what we did not know about using JRPG to descripe Japaneese RPGs 

Finaly we talk about  @videogamedunkey  and his publishing company BigMode as they were interviewed by Gameindustry.biz.  WE LOVE YOU DUNKEY!

Terminations

Nordic Game Report - Sweedish Discrimination Act

Sources:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/investigation-finds-nordic-game-likely-violated-discrimination-law

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/nordic-game-report-reveals-possible-violations-of-swedish-discrimination-act

https://nordicgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Summary_of_Gender_Balance_report_on_Nordic_Game.pdf

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/nordic-game-organizers-launch-whistle-blower-system-after-harassment-investigation

EA Layos off 200 Apex Legends QA staff

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/report-ea-fires-200-apex-legends-qa-testers

https://www.gameinformer.com/2023/03/01/ea-reportedly-lays-off-more-than-200-apex-legends-qa-testers-over-zoom

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/over-200-apex-legends-qa-testers-have-been-abruptly-laid-off-by-ea

https://www.eurogamer.net/ea-reportedly-lays-off-200-apex-legends-qa-testers

https://gamerant.com/apex-legends-ea-layoffs-2023/

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ea-lays-off-over-100-qa-workers-from-baton-rouge-office

CWA ABK Fired 2 QA testers

https://www.eurogamer.net/union-sues-activision-claims-it-unlawfully-fired-two-qa-testers

https://kotaku.com/activision-accused-of-illegally-fired-qa-testers-over-r-1850171073

Labels

--Yoshi-P Final Fantasy -- Skill Up YT video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZTNoV2Iey0

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/final-fantasy-xvi-producer-doesnt-like-the-term-jrpg/1100-6511939/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-face-of-final-fantasy-doesnt-like-the-term-jrpg-once-considered-it-discriminatory

https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-producer-naoki-yoshida-sparks-debate-the-term-jrpg-as-discriminatory

https://kotaku.com/ff16-yoshi-p-jrpg-square-enix-yoshida-previews-ps5-1850169822

Frogs

Bigmode - 

sources

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/bigmodes-journey-from-youtubers-to-publishers

Segments

0:00 Intro and Titles 

1:50 Important Announcement - trevorproject.org 

5:44 Termination -EA, ABK, Nordic Games 

41:30 Labels Yoshi-P and JRPG 

55:30 Frogs BigMode and Video Game Dunkey 

1:05:00 Roundtable