Categories
Uncategorized

Ex-MetroGames staffers plan legal action against studio management

Former staffers with struggling Argentina-based social game studio and Coco Girl developer MetroGames told Gamasutra late last week that their fight against management is continuing into the new year. Employees with the studio last month accused management of “extortion,” alleging that company heads were “pressuring” employees to quit, as opposed to firing them, so that workers would be ineligible for severance pay that is required by labor laws. Some employees quit, while others waited for …