Less than two years after first purchasing the site (along with Rock Paper Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz and VG247) from Reedpop, media company Ziff Davis (owners of IGN) have conducted a number of layoffs at games media site Eurogamer, affecting both editorial and video roles.
As VGC report, "the brand’s most experienced editors and its entire four-person video team" are among those impacted, while "behind-the-camera cuts" have also been made at another Ziff-owned property, the YouTube channel Outside Xbox. VGC also say this is "at least its second round of editorial layoffs" to hit Eurogamer since 2024.
Andy Robinson
It's just the latest in a succession of devastating blows to games media over the last few years, as publishers struggle with both a collapsing ad market and their own bone-headed decisions, like Ziff buying a bunch of video games websites when they already owned the biggest one in the world.
Eurogamer's time under Ziff has been rocky; this is not the first round of layoffs the site has endured since 2024. Last year much of their masthead was overhauled when a number of editors and writers from VG247 were shuffled over to Eurogamer following the departure of veteran EiC Tom Phillips.
The network also lost performance and technical experts Digital Foundry last year, when the team--who had been with Eurogamer since 2007--bought their way out from Ziff ownership and went independent.
