While crunch time had been identified before in larger firms from other sources, such as at Rockstar Games, Schreier's reporting identified crunch also tended to persist at smaller studios. Schreier found common stories of excessive use of ' crunch time' by some developers and the use of excessive overtime over multiple weeks and months to make sure a video game was completed by a target date. īesides standard reporting on video game news, Schreier gained an early reputation at Kotaku for getting stories from developers about their inside processes for various titles. He was promoted to news editor for the site prior to his departure. Schreier accepted the position, which he started around the same time. Kotaku had been founded in 2004 as the video game front under Gawker Media.

At Kotaku Īround 2011, Schreier was contacted by Stephen Totilo, the editor-in-chief for the website Kotaku, offering him a position as a full-time news reporter. Other freelance work included a weekly column at Joystiq on Japanese role-playing games, and works published at Kill Screen, Edge, Eurogamer, G4TV, GamesRadar, and Paste. He worked for Wired from 2010 to 2012, covering video games and related technology. Schreier initially worked as a freelance journalist covering local news stories. Schreier attended the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU, graduating with a degree in writing in 2009. In April 2020, Schreier joined the technology focus team at Bloomberg News. He worked as a news reporter for Kotaku from 2011 to 2020 and was recognized for several investigative stories, particularly on the crunch culture within the industry. Jason Schreier (born May 10, 1987) is an American journalist and author who primarily covers the video game industry.

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