IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell - eviltoast

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.

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Is there anything pointing to that in this case?

    • xkforce@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Did you not read the title at least? How does firing all these people indicate they know what theyre doing?