Ah, so that's how they make their billions

Working for Electronic Arts, the world's largest and richest games company (home to the likes of Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Burnout 3, etc, etc, etc; annual revenue $2.5bn) should be a blast and well rewarded, yes? Not if you believe the blog of the wife of one of its workers.

According to the anonymous missus, her husband is forced to work 11 hours a day, seven days a week. And for no overtime. This has obviously touched a nerve in the game community because her blog post attracted a gobsmacking 1,000-plus comments.

Now it emerges EA is facing a class-action suit from disgruntled employees over excessive hours at the coalface. Could turn out to be a PR disaster for EA.

And if you haven't had your fill of evil corporations, read the story of how AOL bought over and crushed the life out of the creators of WinAmp, one of the first and greatest MP3-playing programs.