Kate Edwards, executive director of the International Game Developers Association.
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GamesBeat Summit will explore how developers can manage crunch

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The debate on “crunch time,” or forced uncompensated overtime required to finish games, exploded in the past couple of weeks after gaming veteran Alex St. John argued that game developers were wrongly making themselves out to be victims in their artistic endeavors. He was reacting to an effort by the International Game Developers Association to end uncompensated crunch and to conduct a survey that could expose the practice at game companies.

We’re pleased that Kate Edwards, executive director of the IGDA, will address the topic in a roundtable at the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May 4 at the scenic Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, California.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.