The industry is experiencing historic shrinkage post COVID due to unsustainable growth during COVID.
The industry is experiencing historic shrinkage post COVID due to unsustainable growth during COVID.
It’s not an easy transition. My partner works for DDG and I still don’t use it all the time. To their credit they are working to improve things but it’s a small team (comparatively). Their browser has some good features like app tracking protection just from having it installed and quick throwaway email support but isn’t quite up to Firefox’s standard (yet).
Don’t forgot the Blitzchung Hong Kong scandal - Blizzard has really gone from scandal to scandal the last few years.
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I loved discovering all the little quirks of the character skins - I remember the stone golem was immune to fire.
The games industry is shrinking post COVID boom, companies expanded massively to try to capitalise on that and now the money isn’t there anymore. The games industry is always bad for layoffs, with staff being seen as an unnecessary expense post project in many cases. Additionally the tech sector is experiencing a unheard of levels of bad year (something like a 700%+ percent increase in layoffs according to at least one research group) which is contributing.
A shame, especially to be shut down a second time, the time splitters games defined my childhood.
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I’m on the East Sussex coast, no snow but the worst frost so far and a freezing fog.
Do you know what’s nuts? He’s well respected within the industry as an editor - he’s worked with many of the luminaries of science fiction and fantasy over the years as the editor for Wild Cards and other short story collections.