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Jeremy Bratetich

@jeremy.minimap.com.au

Managing Editor of @minimap.com.au He/They Jeremy@minimap(dot)com(dot)au Obiwanjezz most other places

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Jeremy Bratetich@jeremy.minimap.com.au · 2w ago

“Captain America is back, but without his costume or shield, and with a beard, black tee, someone else’s weapon, and played by someone that’s seemingly unable to do anything else.” welcome back, fox universe

Austin Gallagher@austingallagher.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wrote a piece for @harrisonpolites.bsky.social's Infinite Lives. Lots of cool people took time out of their busy schedule to talk to me about Game Jams (this could have been three times as long with the wealth of information and insight they provided). Check it out! substack.com/home/post/p-...

From Hungry Knight to Hollow Knight: Lessons from the Game Jams behind Australia's greatest hits

As layoffs and AI rock the industry, Jams have become a vital, low-stakes proving ground for great local games.

substack.com

OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union@bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 4w ago

Unfortunately, HR made our office manager take this down almost immediately. They said because it's in a common area, it had to be removed. We've used common areas for many things as a team, including fan works, but HR seems to believe that a Celebration of Service is inappropriate.

OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union@bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 4w ago

Those of us in Rockville were inspired by the Dallas team's vigil for those let go Monday and made our own Celebration of Service. We set it up this morning in the common area of the first floor at 9am today.

Flowers and framed photos of laid-off developers in the lobby of Bethesda Games Studios.
Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz@laurakbuzz.bsky.social · last mo.

God, it looks like a LOT of Accessibility specialists were hit by today's layoffs at Xbox, inclusing some of their most senior accessibility folks. This feels like a REALLY bad sign for accessibility at Xbox going forward. A huge amount of skilled talent being thrown out as part of this "shake up".

Janel Comeau 🍁@verybadllama.bsky.social · last mo.

If you go off your ADHD meds while living alone you get to experience the “somebody keeps moving my stuff” parts of having a roommate without the “someone else pays half the rent” parts of having a roommate

Sherveen Uduwana@suduwana.bsky.social · last mo.

Really hate the framing of these layoffs as a reset when they've been doing layoffs again and again for the past two years. Despite admitting they had a 3% profit margin (AFTER all their acquisitions) this fiscal year. Profitable, Just not as much as their competitors. So lay everyone off I guess

All these layoffs are occurring almost one year to the day after a previous wave of huge cuts at Microsoft that impacted 9,100 individuals company-wide and which resulted in 200 individuals laid off from Candy Crush maker King, a canceled Perfect Dark reboot and the closure of studio The Initiative, a canceled MMORPG at ZeniMax, and the cancellation of Everwild amid restructuring at Rare. That layoff came less than a year after an earlier mass layoff of 650 across Xbox, which itself was only nine months after a layoff of nearly 2,000 across the gaming division in January 2024
Kotaku@kotaku.com · last mo.

Xbox is preparing to lay off around 3,200 individuals, part ways with Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Undead Labs, Ninja Theory, and possibly Arkane Lyon in what CEO Asha Sharma is calling "the most significant res... https://kotaku.com/xbox-layoff-3200-most-significant-restructure-history-2000712836