Bungie Layoffs, Game Informer's Closure, and More w/ Saniya Ahmed and Nicole Carpenter

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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On this week's episode Kat, Eric, and special guests Saniya Ahmed and Nicole Carpenter discuss recent layoffs in both journalism and development. How will Bungie's layoffs change the future of Destiny? Does Destiny HAVE a future? Should it? All these question and more will be answered in this week's Axe of the Blood God! Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod and subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod Also in this episode: Kat has nice things to say about Final Fantasy XIV Fast AND Furious? In this economy? Gathering the Magic Arranger Timestamps: 05:04 - Game Informer Layoffs 20:00 - Bungie Layoffs 50:56 - Random Encounters 58:40 - The Tavern 1:19:28 - Eric's Nostalgia Pit Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] rtown0 (Δ Server Aqua Capital Mac Anu) - [.hack//INFECTION] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	You know, Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God and Independent RPG podcast.
0:48.8	I'm your host, Kat Bailey.
0:51.0	I'm joined, as always, by my lovely co-host, Eric Van Allen.
0:55.1	Hello, good morning. We're just talking about days before we started this podcast, like normal
0:59.7	humans do, you know, just completely normal human conversation. Sunday, definitely a B-tier day
1:05.8	of the week, still the weekend. But at the same time, you're looking into the dreaded maw.
1:12.0	That is Monday.
1:13.8	On the other hand, Monday is okay because that is the day that the recorded version of
1:18.5	Acts of the Blood God comes out.
1:19.8	So you can look forward to that on Mondays.
1:22.7	Mondays underrated.
1:24.3	But we're not going to talk about that.
1:25.8	We're going to be talking about the demise,
1:28.9	unfortunately, of Game Informer and the substantial layoffs that hit, Bungy. It was a very rough
1:37.1	week, unfortunately, last week. And here to join us in that conversation are our two special guests.
1:44.9	Nicole.
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