Elise Favis

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!

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WHOA this is the coolest thing???!

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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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Save 20% on Interstate 35 on Steam A visual novel exploring a near-apocalyptic vision of North Texas, told through the poetic words of a young woman going home.

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It's been so much fun to work with @softrains.bsky.social and @lizzietrouble.bsky.social on Ambrosia Sky; we've been so thrilled to see this special project get the attention it deserves!

that rules!! congrats!

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oh yeah, i've been considering going back to Outer Worlds 1 too; i might just do it! i reviewed Outer Worlds back when it came out and honestly it's already hazy for me in my memory, i need a refresher before the sequel

yes! also love just chilling at the campsites to hear all the banter or turn my brain off and do bounty missions

also, more open world games with less bloat! please! Avowed is just the right length (for me, anyways) without it feeling like they tacked on content just for the sake of it, as we see Ubisoft do a lot for example. this is just good shit, without overstaying its welcome

to me this game is a reminder that we don't always need games to be pushing the envelope or super innovative to just be damn good games worth talking about. Avowed is wonderful, and I always want to see games pushing boundaries in this space, but this is just Obsidian doing what it does well.

I'm late to this, i know, but i was waiting for that arachnophobia mode update so i could play lmao. Avowed is good!!! I feel like it should have been talked about more, even if it isn't doing anything utterly groundbreaking, it is a perfectly fun open world RPG.

Started playing Avowed over the weekend and I am unhealthily obsessed, I haven't been hooked on a big RPG like this in a while. I really enjoy the flexible combat and ability to use a pistol in one hand AND a grimoire in the other. the companions grew on me, even if they're not Obsidian's best.

Concept art for our protagonist, Dalia. She is a Scarab, a deep-space disaster clean-up specialist.

Scarabs are a loose outfit of self-trained scientists, whose specialties are a blend of biology 🧬, engineering ⚙️, and religious mysticism. ☄️

Announcing our debut title... Ambrosia Sky. 🪐

Amongst the asteroids of Saturn lies your home, and a mystery
that demands to be solved. Clean the contamination, lay the dead to rest, and find her.

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so excited to say I've been working with @softrains.bsky.social on their huge announcement today to reveal Ambrosia Sky - could not be prouder of the team!!

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not going to SGF is SUCH a bummer, but I am finally starting to feel better and I'm embracing it. my dad's been here for support with the hospital visits and surgeries, bless him. today I took him to a cafe. here's hoping my health continues to stabilize so i don't have to miss fun things anymore!