Labor - Aftermath (Page 6)

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

Concord's Demise Is Sony's Fault

Yesterday, Sony announced it’s shutting down Concord creator Firewalk Studios, whose game released in August and was taken offline less than two weeks later. CEO Hermen Hulst explained that

By Riley MacLeod

/ 30 Oct 2024

Three characters from "Concord" eating at a counter

Sony Shuts Down Concord Developer Firewalk Studios

In a predictable though lamentable end to the saga of Sony’s latest would-be multiplayer hit, Concord, the publisher is closing Firewalk Studios, the developer behind the game. Bloomberg’s

By Nathan Grayson

/ 29 Oct 2024

Sony Shuts Down Concord Developer Firewalk Studios

French Union Pushes Back Against Don't Nod's Aggressive Layoff Plan

After a difficult year that’s seen multiple games fall short of sales expectations, original Life Is Strange developer Don’t Nod is implementing a “reorganization project” that could impact

By Nathan Grayson

/ 16 Oct 2024

French Union Pushes Back Against Don't Nod's Aggressive Layoff Plan

Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website's Archives [Update]

Last week it was reported that GameStop, a clown show of a company peddling meme stocks and cheap video game merchandise, had unceremoniously and without notice shut down Game Informer,

By Luke Plunkett

/ 15 Oct 2024

Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website's Archives [Update]

Some Of Game Informer's Stuff Ended Up At GameStop

Video games retailer GameStop abruptly shuttered its magazine Game Informer in August, nuking the site’s archives in the process. Its staff was scattered to the winds, but now we

By Riley MacLeod

/ 27 Sep 2024

MinnMax's Sarah Podzorski stands next to a statue from Dark Souls at a GameStop

Gamurs Group Has More Shitty Layoffs [Update]

Gamurs Group, owner of sites like Dot Esports, Destructoid, and Twinfinite, had another round of layoffs this morning, with several former staffers reporting they were laid off via impersonal emails

By Riley MacLeod

/ 24 Sep 2024