Blockbuster Video Games Mint Millions While Grunts Get Exploited

Jason Schreier is perhaps the only real journalist in the video games space, where most gaming sites are merely conduits to deliver PR from game publishers. He has leveraged a large network of insider contacts to put together a lot of reporting on industry labor practices, and it has been a bit of a breakout for him. I assume it earns him even more insider contacts.

Nintendo's decision to sell in the toy isle all those years ago has left this child's play image of video games permanently ingrained in our psyche, which means there still isn't grown-up reporting on an absolutely massive industry.

We need more reporting on employee treatment. We need more reporting on bait-and-switch releases, gambling mechanics, "live service" money pumps, and all the rest of the greedy, customer-hostile bullshit they practice on a daily basis.