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.

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[–] simple@lemm.ee 93 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh they're redundancies to IGN alright, they literally bought their competitors and got to kill competition with zero resistance

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There used to be laws against this shit.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

people also used to vote in their own interests