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At an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Xbox addressed the growing employee concerns about labor conditions at Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company, ZeniMax. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, said he was \u201cconfident\u201d that the studio was not crunching, and that it was \u201cunfair\u201d to attribute crunch culture to\u2026<\/p>\n

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Source – kotaku.com<\/p>\n

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At an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Xbox addressed the growing employee concerns about labor conditions at Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company, ZeniMax. 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