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Assassin's Creed Maker Finally Confronts Its Toxic Culture
The French video game company was too slow to address complaints of sexual harassment.
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All the warning signs were there: An industry that’s long struggled with sexism; an overwhelmingly male workforce; an emphasis on the privileged role of the creative mind.
Yet it still took three years for the #MeToo reckoning to catch up with Ubisoft SA. The maker of the video games Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry said on Sunday that three of its top executives would depart amid an internal review into a slew of sexual harassment allegations made over the past month.