Le Procès Ubisoft, et comment le Jeu Vidéo a façonné les Nouveaux Mercenaires du Capitalisme.
(I did the English subs on my own, so they're very likely to be unperfect, but they're here !) Support the channel: Patreon : / acheunderscore Ko-Fi : https://ko-fi.com/acheunderscore Instagram: / acheunderscore Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/acheundersco... Twitter: https://www.x.com/acheunderscore_ All my socials: https://acheunderscore.carrd.co/ 0:00 Intro 11:40 PART 1. Mercenaries 18:26 French Touch 25:35 A New Spirit 31:38 PART 2. Gangsters 37:38 Gangsters and free market 47:44 PART 3. Nothing is true, everything is permitted 57:50 The (open) world is yours 1:06:58 PART 4. Hyperviolence 1:27:38 Conclusion 1:37:20 Living in the industry, leaving the industry 1:48:01 Acknowledgments and last remarks Selective bibliography : ➤ "Le Nouvel Esprit du Capitalisme", Eve Chiappelo & Luc Boltanski, 1999. ➤ "Un Empire nommé Ubi", Ugo Trelis, 2025. https://cqfd-journal.org/Un-empire-no.... ➤ "Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games", Dyer-Witherford & De Peuter, 2009. ➤ "La Société Ingouvernable : Une généalogie du libéralisme autoritaire", Grégoire Chamayou, 2018. ➤ "White Thumbs, Black Bodies: Race, Violence, and Neoliberal Fantasies in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas", Paul Barrett, 2006. ➤ "Ideology and the Virtual City: Videogames, Power Fantasies And Neoliberalism", Jon Bailes, 2019. ➤ "Fantasmâlgories", Klaus Theweleit, 1977. Article about the 2020 allegations: https://www.liberation.fr/images/2020... https://www.liberation.fr/france/2020... https://www.liberation.fr/culture/202... https://www.liberation.fr/futurs/2020... https://www.numerama.com/politique/63... https://www.numerama.com/politique/63... Accounts of the trial: https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article... https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article... https://www.lemonde.fr/jeux-video/art... https://www.liberation.fr/culture/au-... • Ubisoft : l'avocate de cinq victimes racon... • Procès des ex cadres d'Ubisoft : notre com... Abuses in other branches of Ubisoft : Ubisoft Montpellier & Michel Ancel : https://www.liberation.fr/images/2020... Nadeo : https://www.numerama.com/politique/64... Ubisoft San Francisco : https://fandomwire.com/verbally-insul... Ubisoft Singapour : https://kotaku.com/the-messy-stalled-... Ubisoft Montreal : https://financialpost.com/technology/... In other studios: ➤ Jason Schreier, "Inside Rockstar Games’ Culture Of Crunch", 2018, Kotaku. ➤ Colin Campbell, "How Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games", 2019, Polygon. ➤ Jason Schreier, "Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Orders 6-day Weeks Ahead of Launch", 2020, Bloomberg. ➤ Matt Kim, "How a Culture of Crunch Brought Telltale From Critical Darling to Layoffs", 2019, VG247. ➤ William Audureau, "Quantic Dream, un fleuron du jeu vidéo français aux méthodes de management contestées", Le Monde, 2018. ➤ People Make Games, " Investigating Three Indie Superstars Accused of Emotional Abuse", 2022. #videogames #ubisoft
