What’s that question you haven’t asked and probably don’t care about? So what has been up in the gaming industry? A lot of doom and gloom is the short answer. There hasn’t been a month gone by where the headlines haven’t carried word of another studio closure, retailer going under, or publisher falling short on expected sales. Really nothing too happy to say these days. As of late, when items like this fall into my inbox I would rather not write about them. Everyone knows the economy is shit, recession, depression, or what ever you want to call it. If you need me telling you, than you need to get out more often. The question that might make a difference to you dear reader is, what will this bring to you, the gamer?
As studios like Free Radical and Ensemble Studios go under there are many skilled programmers, designers, and producers dumped into the job market. Now try to hold back those tears, a good number of these people have received severance packages. I’m not trying to trivialize the massive life changing event of someone losing their job, I just want to make sure you are aware some of these people got a paycheck as they were showed the door. I have heard of some companies, outside of gaming, pay severance of one month of salary for each year of service, which can be a sizable amount of money for some, especially in an industry where contractual and cyclical employment means people need to (or rather should) save for those times they are between jobs.
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