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Citation please. Seriously. I know that a few Japanese studios have this kind of self-slavery attitude towards their work, but rarely mentioned so I can't even google one up. Maybe Dan Greenawalt had a secret suite made up at Redmond that accidentally left open during one developer showcase? Probably not. Artists? Writers? Why not let's drag devoted surgeons into this who are burning midnight oil to save a patient's life, because that's all the same thing, right?
I was a software engineer for 15 years mostly working in the chemical engineering & mobile phone sectors. I can tell you for a fact that insanely long hours & over-nighters are extremely common in the software industry, regardless of whether it is for a game or for a chemical processing simulator & optimiser.
So really it is nothing special for software developers to do this. It is accepted as part of the job.