Development studio Quantic Dream, creators of PlayStation exclusives such as Heavy Rain and the recent top seller Detroit: Become Human, has apparently lost a court case against a former employee. According to the report, the victim in the case quit after offensive Photoshopped images of employees were being circulated at the studio. Eventually, the images were mentioned following a joint investigation of a toxic workplace culture. The investigation was undertaken by French journalists over at Le Monde, Canard PC, and Mediapart and was published in January 2018. The developer issued and official statement, in response to these reports.
The accusations were directed at Quantic Dream leaders David Cage and Guillaume de Fondaumière, describing inappropriate behavior, overworking the staff, and perpetuating a kind of schoolboy culture, which mostly consisted of sexist and racist jokes. Canard PC’s report [NSFW] offered examples of this. Quantic Dream boss David Cage expressed that he was “shocked” by the allegations, after which he took to Twitter declaring that accusations coming from the staff were “slanderous” and part of a “smear campaign.”
Now the plot thickens with the arrival of today’s court decision, which was detailed online in a series of tweets from journalist Nicolas Turcev, putting the odd prise d’acte employment law into view as well. Here’s the tweet:

.@Quantic_Dream vient de perdre un procès...