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Epic has rocked the video game industry by laying off 16% of its workforce, nearly 900 people. While layoffs and studio closures and game cancellations are all too common in the industry, this was worse than usual, given the context in which they took place.

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone set out with the goal of using the word 'Quixotic' in their article today

[–] braiseit420@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're really tilting at windmills with that one, eh?

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

It is truly a Giant undertaking

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I, too am on a Quixotic quest to use that word wherever possible.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a shame, Sweeney was involved with some good games back in the early days, and Unreal engine and the Unreal Tournament games were great. But I think he's better off being a programmer, you can't treat the real business world like program code.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Sweeney was involved with some good games back in the early days

Digital Extremes also did, since UT'99 I believe. And they are still okay. Their current f2p game feels better than UT3 ever did, if not for it's own problems.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I assumed it was corporate greed, but Meta is basically the same thing so that scans.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Or. Frequently, just the reader mode in Firefox.