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“What if a company was so secretive you didn’t even know you were applying to work at it?”

A blockchain company bought two game studios in almost complete secrecy, apparently to avoid the toxic reputation of crypto in games:

KUSK Law partner Don McGowan ... told Game Developer that there’s nothing illegal about keeping these purchases a secret, but that it is “fucking weird.”

Spoiler: it gutted them both.

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