1up.com/EGM Destroyed!
 

F*cking WHY!?

The greatest group of talented gaming press ANYWHERE, and the entire place gets blown to f*ck. I could care less about douches like Ryan O'Donnell, Phillip Kollar and Jay Fresh, but the loss of Skip, Shane, James and Anthony is a GIGANTIC blow. This on the heels of the departure of CLASS guys like Jeff Green. Shane is going to kill me the most. How can you have 1up Yours or Broken Pixels without Shane?

I hate this f*cking industry.

Edit: Ryan Scott, Greg Ford, Michael Donahoe and Simon Cox also got canned. Jesus Christ. Everyone is gone. Garrnet Lee and Sam Kennedy are going to be the only ones left over there. Seriously, what the ****.

What the f*ck?! :(

The hell? Those are some heavy layoffs.

I heard the next group to get some layoffs is The Internauts.

Just what I hears.

Am I going to get laid off for the second time? :(

Seriously. It pisses me off that complete sh*t game sites with terrible staff like IGN and Gamespot get to keep trucking, while what is arguably the best "conversation" games website gets completely dismantled. Who knows, maybe a bunch of them will move on to the corpse of Gamespot and actually make it worth visiting again. Christ knows they don't have anyone worthwhile working there.

I still visit Gamespot out of habit and yeah, it's pretty terrible. I feel like nobody really even cares there anymore.

We all knew EGM was going down, but to castrate 1UP's staff? What's the point in buying them? Simple. The new owners don't care about what they are getting into. They just want an established product to milk in a hot industry. The whole goddamn industry is transforming into a barrage of fansites and "blogs". God, I hate blogs. I really do.

I know a few of these guys, and this is just fu*king terrible for them and us. This is why I hate buyouts. Corporations could care less about talent. Video game industry writers are seen as disposable. Fire the high paid talent, make the rest work double to carry the work load until they quit caring from burnout, then hire some of the endless schmucks from the blogosphere to fill the void and work for peanuts. This is why us guys can't unionize. They'd throw us to the curb in a sonic second.

I hope they start their own site. I really do. This is a goddamn joke. A sick goddamn joke. And all the while, IGN continues to milk Rupert Murdoch's withered old tits for money to pull reviews that haven't been paid for, as Gamespot continues to beg for attention with it's whip beaten yes man staff and GamePro magazine somehow continues it's life as a walking piece of dry rot. Why the hell is that magazine still alive?

Seriously, we're all expendable. This is why the gaming journalism industry will never, and I mean ever, be treated as a serious career path. These were the best in the biz. I looked up to them. If they, of all people, can get kicked to the curb as though they are worthless replaceable line workers, then none of us really have a purpose looking to advance in this biz.

They taught me to be a better writer. I wish them all the best there is. Goddamn buyouts to hell.

So far, we've got the 1up FM guys and some of the 1up Show crew doing another podcast (Rebel FM) at Eat-Sleep-Game.com.

And I'm sure we'll hear from Shane at some point in the near future. I'd just like some confirmation that 1up Yours and Retronauts are sticking around. Garnett may be the only one left for 1up Yours, but John shows up all the times, and he doesn't work for 1up anymore. Retronauts still has both of their hosts, Jeremy and Sharkey, plus Chris Kohler works for Wired and has no affiliation to 1up anyways.

I need my ****ing podcasts!

1Up wins, and at least EGM wasn't Game Informer.