After misconduct allegations, MidBoss embraces new company culture and strives to promote queer games

Indie studio MidBoss has quietly picked up the pieces after allegations of sexual harassment and wage theft emerged against its former CEO and founder Matt Conn. It’s now under the leadership of temporary CEO Cade Peterson, whose first order of business was to fix the studio’s internal problems. Recently, he has also spearheaded his first external initiative at MidBoss: the Queer Games Bundle, which is a partnership with other indie studios to promote LGBTQIA titles on the PC marketplace Steam.

After Conn stepped down from his role at both MidBoss and the nonprofit GaymerX Foundation, which he also founded, former GaymerX president Toni Rocca was slated to replace him. But when allegations swirled around her, she also left. The two companies both have new CEOs now and have severed ties with each other.