Laid-off programmer details “unlawful” last days at Bodycount studio

A former Codemasters employee has accused the publisher of imposing unlawful working conditions and threatening laid-off staff with bankruptcy proceedings for not returning wages “mistakenly” paid to them.Semi Essessi, a programmer who worked on 2011 first-person shooter at the publisher’s now defunct Guildford studio, contacted Eurogamer to detail a long list of grievances held against his former employer.Codemasters has now responded to these allegations.Read more…