'No video games on a dead planet': New report reveals carbon cost of game development
'No video games on a dead planet': New report reveals carbon cost of game development
What are the climate consequences of developing video games? When an independent studio made its sixth game, it decided to find out.
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Focusing on video game emissions is hilarious. As the article states: it's travel that costs the most. Stop flying, stop driving those damn cars, stop forcing people into the office, and stop turning up the heating to 21+ degrees Celsius. A single car trip probably generates more emissions than all the gaming you'll ever do in your life.
It's a red herring.
That's what the article is about though, the travel required. You can apply this to a lot of industries thoughm the amount of times companies I've worked for have flown a team of engineers somehere for a meeting that could have been a video call is obscene.