Chris Avellone, a veteran narrative designer on games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords and Fallout: New Vegas, has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least four women, according to Bloomberg. The revelations have prompted several studios who’d hired Avellone as a consultant, including Techland, Paradox Interactive, and Gato Studios, to break ties with the writer.
Avellone was working on Techland’s Dying Light 2, and had recently contributed to Gato’s The Waylanders and Paradox’s Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, when women began to speak out about their experiences with the writer. Two women accused Avellone of trying to get them drunk and make sexual advances at them. One woman named Karissa, who declined to share her last name with Bloomberg for fear of harassment, described the episode with Avellone in detail on Twitter, accusing the developer of getting her “blackout drunk...
Avellone was working on Techland’s Dying Light 2, and had recently contributed to Gato’s The Waylanders and Paradox’s Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, when women began to speak out about their experiences with the writer. Two women accused Avellone of trying to get them drunk and make sexual advances at them. One woman named Karissa, who declined to share her last name with Bloomberg for fear of harassment, described the episode with Avellone in detail on Twitter, accusing the developer of getting her “blackout drunk...
- 6/24/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
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