A story from browsing Youtube Music. "Oh hey, Meteora got a 20th anniversary release last year? I wonder if it got remastered." *10 seconds later*

The $375,000,000 Microsoft payout to known dog scum Bobby Kotick, could pay for the estimated salaries of both Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks employees combined for the next 17 and a half years

Layoff accountability - we see that, we’ll magically see fewer layoffs. It’s amazing what happens when the consequences fall on the right people. Outstanding, even. And even with that, they’d still be ok financially, meanwhile we’re seeing more and more “I don’t have a home

CALLING ALL DEVELOPERS: Please respond (a) if you have been laid off in the last year (b) how long it took you to find your next gig. Please retweet for visibility.

Mike Ybarra 😇 Recommendation from a communications professional: Maintain focus on those impacted. I doubt anyone thinks this was an easy decision or that folks up high feel good about this. What feels worse, though, is losing stability and income - and all the stress that comes with that.

Sorry but I'm not spending any tears on CEOs who make fucked up decisions and literally don't even mention the people whose lives they have upended in this essay of self-serving, non-accountability, performative bullshit 💅🏽

Apple has unintentionally made one of the most fitting and revealing advertisements of the modern era. My god. This horror perfectly encapsulates the feeling of life as the powerful wreak escalatingly careless and clueless destruction.

recently, when video game execs have laid people off and shut down studios, they've announced plans to re-focus their reduced workforces' energies on franchises, often at the expense of new projects and series. we can't keep going like this aftermath.site/microsoft-layo…

the cwa, which helped over 300 workers at bethesda parent company zenimax (and hundreds more across microsoft) unionize, has issued a statement about the recent studio closures and layoffs

I think I might have to retire from the Games Industry 😞 I haven’t been able to get a job in months and severance has been gone for a while now. I’ve only gotten final rounds I think 4 times now? It’s too brutal out there