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As we enter a new quarter, time for an update on games industry layoffs. As you can see here we're well past 50k people known to be impacted since 2020 in over 800 incidents. with 3 months to go, 2026 could end as the worst year on record. 55% of known layoff waves in 2026 have unknown headcounts.

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These runny eggs are trash, Gordon. You need to stop this.

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hey maybe your layoff announcement post isn't a great place for a cutesy opening trying to lighten the mood. fuck off.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the things that makes the Wu-Tang clan so endearing is that the members are just a bunch of big ol' nerds super into watching movies and reading comic books. Even their aliases that aren't direct comic references (like Tony Starks, Johnny Blaze, etc) are still trying to be comic styled.

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this fuckass graph is looking crazy

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Today is so very clearly the end of the quarter. Games industry layoff tracking is going crazy.

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What if I start offering up secrets for money? Like for $5 I'll tell you a tiny secret For $20 I'll tell you a medium secret For $50 I'll tell you a big secret

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so Noctua (known for PC fans?!) has a camera now?

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this legitimately scared me

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

These two games are not only entirely different genres of gameplay, at entirely different ends of the price spectrum, but also on completely different platforms with no overlap whatsoever. Guys I know we're desperate for GTA 6 headline SEO but come on now. lets be for real.

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"Opinion" columns do not absolve a publisher from having published the opinions they contain, by choice and by action.

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We will be doing multiple awards this year, and I want you to start thinking about nominees. We'll start collecting them soon. - Best game key art of 2026 - Best little guy debuting in a game 2026 - Best food depiction in a game 2026 - Best games related headline 2026

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I got served this video as an ad and IDK man. I know it says they're donating the proceeds to charity but it still feels like commercializing the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, right? IDK. seems crassly commercial to me.

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only 20% of gamers are in NA+EU combined.

Newzoo 2026 global games market report showing Global players by region.

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you used to be able to pay money for something once then continue enjoying it without recurring payments.

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"overshooting capacity" isn't a function of success as much as its a function of over-scoping due to producers and directors not regularly having real talk.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Work on Star Citizen started so long ago they they should start work on the remaster now.

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Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a Doom game where you play as a regular dude, not doomguy. Like Halo 3 ODST. You mainly gotta just stay alive while the big kids handle business.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If your project management doesn't account for managing what could go wrong throughout the project, its not really managing the project.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of communities prohibit AI slop content but whats funny is that the people posting it always end up messaging the mod team and their messages are AI slop too. they can't even write basic messages for themselves. They're convinced nobody can tell. Its incredible to watch.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do we agree that these are basically the same picture? One is from Rush Hour 2 The other is from the Starcraft game manual

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lol I've kept my PC on the floor for my entire life. No problems. Its fine. I promise. You can clean dust away, which you should be doing anyway. If your PC is dying faster because of floor-borne dust accumulation you have bigger problems.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A management sim game where you play as the head of a pantheon of gods, managing them and all the demigods across multiple universes, as they isekai people to different worlds, or the same world and either different lives or previous points in their prior lives.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I've said it before and I'll say it again Spider graphs are (almost always) complete BS. Use normal cartesian plane graphs with the same data and its almost always better. Like what is the point? Do you just use them because they look fancier? FOH.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

white pine is the only choice. they're there for you no matter the conditions. the others are only fair-weather friends!

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every day I am reminded at how most of the marketing communications professionals in the games industry have either been laid off or effectively silenced. Every day I see something that makes it abundantly clear.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You all should ask for help I should never ask for help

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I remember when this came out, the box for it was so big some people couldn't fit it into their car door. (back then people would drive to an IRL store to buy the game) The statue was too big for people's shelves. Do any of you still have it? If so, show me where its displayed!

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the Morlock-Eloi dynamic becomes more relevant and prescient with each passing year.

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

honestly? no thanks. Just let things end. Right now our only options are either series that end too soon or series that are never allowed to die, forced to live on for eternity. Neither option is good. We can instead just let things have proper endings, and then stop.

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Righting old wrongs: MobyGames on letting developers claim games they weren't credited for bit.ly/4AzIMiE

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