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Triple Click

Why There Are So Many Video Game Layoffs

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Jason Schreier, Technology, Society & Culture, Maddy Myers, Video Games, Kirk Hamilton

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Xbox laid off nearly two thousand people last week. Before that, Riot laid off hundreds more. Why does this keep happening, and how does it affect people's lives? This week, Jason, Kirk, and Maddy talk about the video game layoff epidemic and try to pinpoint the causes and effects.

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0:00.0

Okay, that wraps up Q4, another success according to every metric. We're going to keep all three hosts on Triple Click from now until eternity.

0:12.0

Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the game click from now until eternity.

0:15.0

Welcome to Triple click, where we bring the games to you. This week we're talking about games industry layoffs,

0:18.0

from Riot Games to Epic Games and Microsoft's deep cuts to Activision Blizzard post acquisition.

0:24.0

Was all of this really necessary?

0:30.0

I'm Maddie Myers.

0:31.0

I'm Jason Schreier.

0:32.0

And I'm Kirk Hamilton and hello hello

0:35.3

Hi my friends it's us again made it back to the tri-force table once again all of our

0:42.0

hands holding on to our respective triangle. This isn't an episode about

0:45.4

Zelda that's just the vibe that I'm entering into this show with today.

0:50.3

Nice man. Yeah and this is a listener supported show. I'm just charging on in. I'm just going to get it out of the way. You know get it done Maddie. We believe in you

1:00.0

Rip off the bandane. It would be painful if I dragged it out. So I'm going to rip it off. Okay, now we're starting to slowly tug at the bandaid. Rip off the band. Okay. We're a listener supported show. What does that mean? Well, you can go to maximum fund.org

1:12.9

slash join and you can find out, but also I'll tell you right now that you could

1:17.8

become a member for a five dollars a month fee. You could get a bonus episode from us every single month.

1:25.3

So we just recorded a bonus episode that was our one more things of 2023 and that would be our book, movie, TV show, and album and podcast that kind of wrapped up

1:38.0

2023 for us or just is a cool thing we liked in 2023.

1:42.6

Think of it as a one more thing,

1:44.0

but it's super long and it's an entire episode

1:46.2

and all three of us do that.

1:47.6

That's the kind of thing we do as a bonus episode,

1:49.6

but also we spill the beans about a game we all played or a movie we all watched or any number of other things.

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