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Nathan Grayson

@vahn16
74 posts
2026-03-07
bombshell from @sweetpotatoes: nintendo is suing the US government over tariffs it deems “unlawful” [image]
2026-03-07 View on X
Aftermath

Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in “unlawful” EOs

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year …

2026-03-06
bombshell from @sweetpotatoes: nintendo is suing the US government over tariffs it deems “unlawful” [image]
2026-03-06 View on X
Aftermath

Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in “unlawful” EOs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade  —  Nintendo of America is suing the United States government …

2024-08-24
those behind black myth: wukong are not the only ones to try something like this. marvel rivals, also from a chinese publisher, netease, tried to bar unpaid creators from disseminating “any” content involving politics and other “objectionable” subjects https://aftermath.site/... [image]
2024-08-24 View on X
Wired

Some streamers say the Chinese game studio behind Black Myth: Wukong told them to avoid topics like “feminist propaganda” as part of an early access agreement

Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired :

black myth: wukong's anti-"feminist propaganda" streaming restrictions have prompted justifiable outcry, but on platforms like twitch, similar stipulations aren't all that uncommon, especially when it comes to sponsored streams/videos https://aftermath.site/... [image]
2024-08-24 View on X
Wired

Some streamers say the Chinese game studio behind Black Myth: Wukong told them to avoid topics like “feminist propaganda” as part of an early access agreement

Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired :

I was able to review documents that accompanied several games sent to content creators, which came with a variety of requirements and restrictions, some of them contractually enforced (as they were tied to paid deals) https://aftermath.site/... [image]
2024-08-24 View on X
Wired

Some streamers say the Chinese game studio behind Black Myth: Wukong told them to avoid topics like “feminist propaganda” as part of an early access agreement

Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired :

2024-08-01
published this in 2022 after asking bungie employees what leadership had told them about the sony buyout. did not age well! [image]
2024-08-01 View on X
IGN

Bungie says it will lay off 220 employees, or 17% of its workforce, and integrate an additional 155 roles into its parent company Sony Interactive Entertainment

The New Path for Bungie has Bungie's announcement of “difficult changes … X: Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier : Sony's Bungie is shrinking from 1,300 people to 850: - 220 laid off -...

2024-04-17
600 people are losing their jobs and several projects have been scrapped, but don't worry: take-two's shares were 1% higher in extended trading
2024-04-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Take-Two plans to lay off 5% of its workforce, expecting to incur up to $200M in charges as part of the downsizing, including $140M from canceled titles

The company sees expenses of up to $200 million as part of the effort, including as much as $140 million from canceled projects …

2024-02-28
last month sony announced a movie adaptation of until dawn. this month, 90 layoffs at the studio that made the game
2024-02-28 View on X
The Verge

Sony plans to lay off around 900 employees, or 8% of its global workforce, at its PlayStation division, and will close PlayStation's London Studio

read the full email employees received about it Willa Rowe / Kotaku : PlayStation Cancels Multiple Games Amid Massive Job Cuts Tom Gerken / BBC : PlayStation to axe 900 jobs and cl...

2024-02-27
last month sony announced a movie adaptation of until dawn. this month, 90 layoffs at the studio that made the game
2024-02-27 View on X
The Verge

Sony plans to lay off around 900 employees, or 8% of workforce, at its PlayStation division, and close its London Studio in the UK

Sony says it's laying off around 900 employees of its PlayStation division, a reduction of its global headcount of around 8 percent.

2024-02-06
I'd like to announce that I've stricken an AI deal with aftermath for breaking news that will be written by journalists, using the google search bar as a research tool
2024-02-06 View on X
Financial Times

Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool

2024-01-23
riot is laying off 530 employees, or 11 percent of its workforce. riot forge, which facilitated the development of new games in the league of legends universe from non-riot studios, is being shut down
2024-01-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Tencent-owned Riot Games plans to lay off 530 employees globally, or ~11% of its staff, saying Riot had “more than doubled in headcount” over the past few years

The cuts, which amount to about 11% of staff, were announced Monday in a blog post and letter to employees.

2024-01-09
absolutely brutal. one of the single biggest rounds of layoffs yet
2024-01-09 View on X
Reuters

Filing and memo: Unity Software plans to lay off ~25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, by the end of March 2024, its largest layoff ever and affecting all teams

Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will target laying off approximately 25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs …

2023-12-21
following a year of unprecedented video game industry layoffs — including what activision employees are calling “soft” layoffs in qa — here are the multimillion-dollar golden parachutes bobby kotick and other soon-to-depart activision execs will receive [image]
2023-12-21 View on X
The Verge

Memo: Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is leaving Microsoft on December 29; Activision's leadership remains and is being integrated into Microsoft Gaming

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is stepping down officially December 29th.  Microsoft has not appointed a direct replacement …

2023-11-14
today's amazon layoffs will eliminate the entirety of crown channel and the game growth team https://aftermath.site/... [image]
2023-11-14 View on X
Aftermath

Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and cuts ~180 jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023

Video game workers just can't catch a break  —  Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically at this point become …

2023-10-17
bandcamp is a pillar of the independent music scene. the ripple effects of epic's mishandling of the company will be felt by musicians and other artists for years
2023-10-17 View on X
SFGATE

Music storefront Bandcamp lays off nearly 50% of its workforce, or 58 employees, as part of Songtradr's acquisition of the company from Epic Games in September

Stephen Council / SFGATE :

2023-03-24
twitch staff, demoralized, are waiting to learn who'll be among 400 laid off. this follows a period of malaise in which leaders bet against creators and twitch's ad business failed to catch up with competitors. my report on how twitch lost its way: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-03-24 View on X
Washington Post

Current and former Twitch staff describe how the service lost its way: out-of-touch leaders, losing big creators, cost cutting, many irrelevant ads, and more

The platform's recent moves have confused and upset creators, fans and staff alike  —  For Twitch, the live-streaming platform watched …

2023-03-21
this comes shortly after the departure of longtime twitch ceo emmett shear last week. twitch laid off recruiting staff last year and reduced hiring in an attempt to avoid further layoffs
2023-03-21 View on X
CNBC

Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023

Today I shared with Twitch employees that we've … Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon's post-Bezos experiment hasn't gone exactly as planned Bloomberg : Amazon to Cut 9,000 More Jobs, Dee...

2023-02-01
RIP halo infinite, a solid game that nonetheless serves as additional proof nobody should never title a game “infinite,” “forever,” or anything along those lines, because it's absolutely a curse https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-01 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at Microsoft's prized 343 Industries, the studio behind Halo, after a leadership overhaul, layoffs, and more; sources detail a pivot to Unreal Engine

Microsoft Corp. says it's going to keep making new games in the popular Halo franchise at its prized 343 Industries studio — despite rumors to the contrary.

2023-01-12
this is just the beginning, and aggregation + explanation performed by AI will doubtless result in lower-quality work and fewer jobs. a loss for everyone https://futurism.com/...
2023-01-12 View on X
Futurism

CNET has been using an “AI engine” to write financial explainers under a CNET Money byline since November 2022, reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by a human

Next time you're on your favorite news site, you might want to double check the byline to see if it was written by an actual human.

really sucks that platforms have no incentive to communicate sweeping policy changes in a way that prepares creators for their actual impacts (in this case: old videos getting demonetized) — and also that creators have no reliable means of pushing back https://kotaku.com/...
2023-01-12 View on X
Kotaku

Some creators are protesting YouTube's policy changes to regulate swearing and violence, which demonetize gaming videos and retroactively impact old content

Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku :