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Outsourcing in the game industry

I frequent 1up as much as gamespot, and consider it a reliable journal of opinion regarding gaming, so when I read this bombshell regarding large developers outsourcing projects and then not crediting the work, I was amazed, and the games aren't small ones either.
According to the article, companies like Nintendo, Sony, Square Enix, THQ, EA, and more have been coming to Tose, a company based in Kyoto with over 1000 employees to work on titles such as Resident Evil 0, The Princess Peach DS game, Virtua Quest, Final Fantasy III (VI) and many hundreds of titles more. I was shocked not that this was happening, outsourcing is a very common business tool, but because the method of accreditation was either a small part of the credits in the special thanks section, or the use of pseudonyms for whomever worked on the title in question. Read the article, you will be amazed.