An individual identifying themselves as the company's manager, Guillaume de Fondaumière, erased all mentions of the charges against the Parisian video game studio.
There are Wikipedia page changes that go less unnoticed than others. This is the case with Quantic Dream, a world-renowned Parisian video game company, which was cleaned up this weekend of its "controversies" section, which mentioned the accusations of toxic, sexist corporate culture and brutal management. 3,400 kilobytes were removed by a user with the pseudonym "guillaumedefondaumiere", the name of one of the two leaders incriminated by the surveys published by Le Monde, Mediapart and Canard PC in January 2018.
In the justification page of the modifications, the individual at their origin evokes "allegations that were formally contested by the company and [a "controversies" section] having been added for the sole purpose of casting stigma on the company. On the evening of March 11, Guillaume de Fondaumière had not responded to the solicitations from Le Monde to confirm or deny that he was indeed the author of these modifications.
The Wikipedia page of the Parisian video game studio has since been reinstated in its previous version and passed to "semi-protected", a status limiting the possibility of modification to avoid malicious interventions.
The author of the deletions also removed the mentions of the controversy on the pages dedicated to Guillaume de Fondaumière and David Cage, the two leaders of the company, referring to "false allegations based on false accusations and legally false."
The next Quantic Dream blockbuster, Detroit: Become Human, is set to hit PlayStation 4 on May 28, 2018. Revelations about the company's management issues have sparked a number of worried positions from left-wing parties. notably by the voice of Alexis Corbière, spokesman of the Insoumis movement, and Jérôme Durain, senator (of the Socialist Party) of the Saône-et-Loire area, concerning the breaches of labor law in the video game industry.
The case of Quantic Dream is not isolated. Another Parisian studio, Eugen Systems, is also being watched. Some of its employees have just started their third week of strike, a first in the sector in France.
