Elise Favis

There will never be another site quite like Fanbyte and I don't think people understand that. The specific mix of talent, trusting that talent, backing it up with financial resources, and the willingness to run into walls at full speed will never be replicated in a gaming site again.

We released a new story trailer for Ambrosia Sky today!!

Benjamin Reeves Is Incredible Ben Reeves narrative designer and writer

I was a Firaxis narrative designer/writer and lost my job today. Any help sharing leads on new opportunities would be great!

Over 3.5 years, I contributed to Civilization VII and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, helping turn maps, mechanics, and chaos into memorable stories. See my work benreeves.carrd.co

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight.

I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open:

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Working with the @softrains.bsky.social team and showing off Ambrosia Sky at PAX West & The MIX was such an honor, and a memorable part of my communications career so far. This game is so special. I'm so glad I got to be a part of it!

About to fly back to Toronto and just thinking about what an incredible weekend it has been.

It was my first PAX and everyone was so kind and it was *so* nice seeing friendly faces and meeting the @softrains.bsky.social community.

I hope I’ll be back again next year!

this is the absolute cutest proposal -- congrats charles!!!!

you were not kidding, this show is seriously special

playing The Drifter while chilling at a cute cafe, 10/10 weekend

come see me at your own risk bratalie 🔪

I'll be at PAX West next weekend with the wonderful @softrains.bsky.social team! Come by Booth 738 to say hello 🥰

clearly the answer then is to finish the clown song and perform it in MN

lizziiieeee come to MN!!

I watched it in one sitting, which I rarely do! I can't stop thinking about it since

and next up I'm watching Scavengers Reign, which feels similarly understated and not loud in the ways adult animation tends to be. really creates a beautiful sense of wonder so far and i'm excited to watch more

Recently finished Common Side Effects on HBO and my god, now I want to shout it from the rooftops that everyone should watch it. so thoughtful, uncomfortable, hopeful; i need more animated shows with serious themes

Hello! You may have seen it, but I am one of the employees that have been impacted by layoffs at IGN.

It's been a great six years, but this now means I am looking to apply my talents to something new and exciting.

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

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I am SO sorry to hear this, Matt. You deserve so much better.

!!!!!! ERIC this is amazing news, congratulations!!!

i'll take it

thank you so much colin!! we love working with y'all!

so i'm just "crew" huh, what about me where is my compliment

Things have been HAPPENING at @fiftycc.bsky.social! Follow us on BlueSky!

If you or anyone you know is looking for PR for their project in 2026 and beyond, please hit us up! Thank you for supporting the arts 🥰

WHOA this is the coolest thing???!

yesssss congrats, imran!!

To anyone being hit by layoffs today,

It's not you. It's them. It isn't your fault. It's theirs. You didn't do anything wrong. They did.

They fucked up. Not you.

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