New Documentary ‘Playing Hard’ Shows That Making Games Can Be Hell

New Documentary ‘Playing Hard’ Shows That Making Games Can Be Hell

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Two months before the release of Ubisoft’s historical online fighting game For Honor, producer Stéphane Cardin left the project without warning.

Cardin, burned out, fled to a cabin in the woods for what the new documentary Playing Hard—which chronicles the four year development of For Honor, from pitch to launch, and is available to stream on Netflix— generously called “an intensive therapy retreat.”