IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell - eviltoast
Long-time Staffers At RPS, GamesIndustry.biz, VG247 Surprised By Layoffs As IGN Buys Network - Aftermath
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“At least one person from almost any department at a company like this you can imagine got some bad news today”

Welp, this didn’t take long.

It’s especially interesting that they laid off a lot of people who were the only ones in their particular job, leaving entire jobs uncovered. I suspect this comes right before shutting them entirely or doing it all “with AI” 🤮.

Sad in particular about Alice Bell. She was fantastic, and it always felt like she kept the site going through all the shit of recent years. Plus being the driving force behind their podcast (the Electronic Wireless Show) of course also spells doom for that one though I hope that like Indiescovery they go rogue and run it independent of the site.

Bleak times. Fuck IGN.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Especially because from what was said, the employees were told the sites will be bought “as is”, so everyone gets to keep their jobs.

    It’s in situations such as these where C-suites being required to also apply to them what they apply to others would be nice:

    • CFO or CEO at IGN has to quit. Won’t hurt them much, but eh.
    • CEO at Reedpop has to sell themselves (into slavery I suppose, plus it fits what they do to their workers).