Devs reveal LA Noire grind

The boss of Australian group Team Bondi screamed at staff in the middle of the office” during the brutal” development of LA Noire, according to an explosive depiction of life at the studio.

Brendan McNamara is accused by one of eleven anonymous insiders as the angriest person I’ve ever met”.

"It’s one thing for him to be angry behind closed doors, but it was incredibly common for him to scream at whoever was pissing him off in the middle of the office,” the person claimed.

Other accounts of life at the Sydney studio say McNamara was required to sit isolated from everyone else” following a visit from a team-building company.

Sister site Develop has all the dirty details.

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