Linux takes 1% of Steam market share as interest in Steam Deck rises
Valve released its monthly Steam Hardware Survey for July, and the biggest surprise came from the Linux gaming crowd. Apart from showing the usual Nvidia and Intel dominance of GPUs and CPU usage among Steam users, there weren't many new takeaways from the latest report, except that Linux games surged to 1% in July, a first in years.
Singapore employees face a 'French ceiling', report says
Valve released its monthly Steam Hardware Survey for July, and the biggest surprise came from the Linux gaming crowd. Apart from showing the usual Nvidia and Intel dominance of GPUs and CPU usage among Steam users, there weren't many new takeaways from the latest report, except that Linux games surged to 1% in July, a first in years.
A new report to the Skull and Bones studio reveals complaints about pay disparities and more.
In November 2020, Hugues Ricour, general manager of Ubisoft Singapore, was sacked following a leadership review triggered by Gamasutra's Ubisoft-wide report of abuse and misconduct. According to the report, Ricour was accused of sexual harassment by multiple sources and anyone who complained faced workplace repercussions that were ignored by Ubi's HR department.
A new report by Kotaku states that complaints of sexual harassment are not addressed, pay inequalities between local and expatriate workers, and a "French ceiling" (Ubisoft's headquarters in Paris), making it difficult for workers in other countries to advance.
"We have a joke: we have a French multiplier and we have a tan multiplier," one employee told the site.
While problems in the studio are common, Ricour himself seems particularly troublesome. The promotion of Olivier de Rotalier to studio head was described by one employee as "like replacing a velvet glove with an executioner". The situation was particularly bad for members of the Skull and Bones team, according to the report. One developer told the site that they were warned not to get on Ricour's bad side because he was "too arrogant and unimportant", while another claimed that anyone who made that mistake would "disappear".
Gamasutra's investigation into Ricour and Ubisoft Singapore came amid allegations of misconduct and misconduct, involving the involvement of other executives across the company, among others chief creative director Serge Hascoët, general manager of Ubisoft Canada Yannis Mallat, and head of global human resources. It resulted in the resignations of Cécile Cornet. However, Ricour did not suffer similar results: Three sources told Kotaku that Ricour took leave immediately after the Gamasutra report was published, but refused to conduct any investigations unless formal allegations were made through Ubisoft's HR department or an internal anonymous reporting tool. According to the report, Ricour returned to work shortly after and apologized to anyone who felt offended by his actions during the next town hall.
A third-party HR firm brought in to investigate the matter in October 2020 determined that there was insufficient information to warrant a lawsuit against Ricour, but in November Ubisoft's Studio Chief Operating Officer Virginie Haas, who was appointed in August 2020. she announced within the company that Ricour was sacked as studio head she. He wasn't fired, though: He was instead transferred to Ubisoft's Paris headquarters, she. His LinkedIn account now lists him as Ubisoft's Director of Production Intelligence.
It's been almost a year since Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot apologized to "everyone hurt" for workplace misconduct, despite his refusal to take any responsibility. According to many accounts, little has changed since then: Last week, the union Solidaires Informatique claimed that executives, including Guillemot himself, had enabled and fostered a culture of "corporate sexual harassment" at the company that perpetuated it in France. He filed a new complaint against Ubisoft. day.
Kotaku's investigation of workplace culture at Ubisoft Singapore followed a separate report on the problematic development of Skull and Bones. Staff at the studio said it's gone through several direction changes and wholesale reboots over the years; A former employee pointed to the "toxic culture permeating the Singapore studio" that is largely responsible for production problems. Despite long-standing issues, Ubisoft is determined to make it happen: Skull and Bones is currently expected to be released in 2022-23.
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