Labor - Aftermath (Page 4)

Video Games Have A Funny Way Of Showing Up When You Need Them The Most

I’m a big proponent of discovering a video game at the right moment for me, rather than through incessant ad campaigns. As indie developer sunset visitor 斜陽過客s speculative sci-fi

By Isaiah Colbert

/ 7 May 2025

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‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers

We’re a few years into a supposed artificial intelligence revolution, which could and should have been about reducing mundane tasks and freeing everyone up to do more interesting things

By Luke Plunkett

/ 7 Apr 2025

Deck Nine Takes Back GDC Award From Laid-Off Devs After Failing To Send Anyone To Accept It

Contrasted against the ever-unsatisfactory brouhaha of Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards, the annual GDC Awards in San Francisco are an oasis: a relatively quiet night of industry professionals honoring each

By Nathan Grayson

/ 31 Mar 2025

Deck Nine Takes Back GDC Award From Laid-Off Devs After Failing To Send Anyone To Accept It

Another Big Day For Layoffs In Another Big Year For Layoffs

I don’t believe any serious person really thought 2025 would magically be different from 2024 in terms of video game industry layoffs, but if you are one of those

By Nathan Grayson

/ 27 Jan 2025

Another Big Day For Layoffs In Another Big Year For Layoffs

Everything Old Is New Again

CNN faces another round of layoffs today, in the midst of the major news cycle of the first days of the new presidency. But it’s not just layoffs–it’

By Riley MacLeod

/ 23 Jan 2025

The Myth Of The Star Reporter

Yesterday, The Washington Post (former employer of Nathan Grayson and me) laid off less than 100 people on the business side, the latest upheaval at the Jeff Bezos-owned paper that’

By Riley MacLeod

/ 8 Jan 2025

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With The Future Class On Hold, The Game Awards' Attempts At Doing Good Produce Mixed Results [Update]

During Thursday’s Game Awards, Geoff Keighley took the stage with one of his rare but practiced airs of sobriety. “Now the sad reality is, the past few years the

By Nathan Grayson

/ 13 Dec 2024

With The Future Class On Hold, The Game Awards' Attempts At Doing Good Produce Mixed Results [Update]

We Can’t Keep Doing This

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A major publisher launched a live-service game intended to compete with one of a small handful of industry-eclipsing giants. It did

By Nathan Grayson

/ 3 Dec 2024

Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return

You don't need me to summarise the state of video games media in 2024: Things are bad. But they've become bad in a myriad of ways,

By Luke Plunkett

/ 12 Nov 2024

Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return

G/O Media Cuts Kotaku To The Bone As More Writers Are Laid Off

G/O Media, a network that owns websites but also knows nothing about running websites, has made further cuts at the already-beleaguered Kotaku, with a number of writers announcing today

By Luke Plunkett

/ 7 Nov 2024

G/O Media Cuts Kotaku To The Bone As More Writers Are Laid Off

PSA: Break Your New York Times Games Streak Today [Updated]

The New York Times Tech Guild went on strike last night, after months of bargaining for a new contract and as election day in America looms. As part of that,

By Riley MacLeod

/ 4 Nov 2024

Fandom Lays Off 11 Percent Of Staff, GameSpot Affected

It’s yet another grim day in games media, and Fandom – the wiki network that owns GameSpot, Giant Bomb, Metacritic, and GameFAQs, among others – is once again to blame. Today’

By Nathan Grayson

/ 30 Oct 2024

Fandom Lays Off 11 Percent Of Staff, GameSpot Affected