Well, it's true. I've worked on both gaming and enterprise software companies."Crunch" is everywhere. The only difference Games (especially casual one) has very short lifetime and changes are frequent and sometimes targeting some event or season like Christmas. With this, the work load becomes very uneven throughout the year. There are months teams are waiting for a solid project (otherwise management keeps them busy with some "New IP" experimental work which is destined to fail crossing approval gates ) and there are spikes where they have to work 6 or 7 straight weekends. Some regions where labor laws are not strict (or in culture itself work-life balance is not expected) its for irratic. In one hand the crunch time is extreem where employees are asked to spend very long hours sometimes overnight at work on the other hands they may have to wait for months for a project to be outsourced from the studio that is holding the IP.