I don't work in the video game industry, but my work does things for video game companies on a fairly regular basis. We get to see things and we don't generally talk about anything we work on, but occasionally we are allowed to show things for PR reasons. We don't always work on things that I'm particularly interested in sharing, but this thing was cool enough on it's own to show. I asked my boss if I could share a photo and he said it was fine just as long as I didn't name any companies or properties. If people happened to guess what it was that was fine. By some strange coincidence an email comes in just as we were talking that specifically stated not to share any media.
My situation would have technically been an accidental leak, but there are people that choose to say things or show things to people with the intention to get it out there before its officially shown. Do people do it knowing they are putting their job at risk? Are they so far removed from the source that they know it will never be traced back to them? How do people decide to keep certain things and leak others?
My situation would have technically been an accidental leak, but there are people that choose to say things or show things to people with the intention to get it out there before its officially shown. Do people do it knowing they are putting their job at risk? Are they so far removed from the source that they know it will never be traced back to them? How do people decide to keep certain things and leak others?