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Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke calls out industry layoffs, "short-sighted" decisions, "arbitrary sales targets," and more in his latest Game Awards speech: "Change is coming" Swen Vincke says the next Game of the Year winners will be developers who are "driven by idealism"

Also, Satvat's sentiment of strengthening the industry was echoed by previous Game of the Year award winner, Swen Vincke, by also describing the layoffs and without them, we would see the industry in a better place. Not just for the sake of the people who work in it, but also for the players too.

This year The Game Awards finally tackled the plague of game industry layoffs Geoff Keighley admitted the show has struggled with how to address the subject of layoffs in years past.

With this segment and the amazing game announcements/reception from The Game Awards fans, people seem very satisfied with the result of this year's show, as PC Gamer released an article highlighting this moment.

In his emotional speech, Satvat asks, "I challenge everyone to ask themselves, 'what more can we each do to make our industry better?'"

With his website, amirsatvat.com, he provides job listings, information, career planning, networking, and other opportunities that helped thousands of people in the industry find new jobs.

YouTube video by thegameawards Amir Satvat Wins TGA Game Changer at The Game Awards 2024

Geoff Keighley introduced a new award category, "The Gamechanger Award," by saying he wrote articles highlighting game developers because he "knew games were nothing without the people behind them," and gave the first award to Amir Satvat.

With the industry and fans, alike, anticipating what was in store for the 2024's Game Awards, it seemed like everyone was pleased with the show.

Geoff Keighley let video game developers down The people who make games are suffering right now.

In 2023, The Verge has criticized The Game Awards host, Geoff Keighley, for ignoring the layoffs, as reporter Ash Parrish, exclaimed it was, "outright cowardice" that made Keighley not bring light to this problem with such a massive, worldwide platform.

gameindustry.biz have recently released an article detailing the impact these layoffs have had during the past couple of years, but what exactly happened at The Game Awards 2024?
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Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees The cuts primarily affect Activision Blizzard employees.

...and Microsoft laying off almost 1900 employees, part Activision Blizzard and Xbox.

Sony is laying off 900 PlayStation employees Sony is the latest in a line of gaming layoffs.

Also in terms of the biggest layoffs of the year, the largest ones were unfortunately with Sony, laying off 900 employees in the beginning of the year...

First of all, this isn't the first year we saw massive amounts of layoffs throughout the industry, as momentum started in 2022. According to videogamelayoffs.com 2023 had hundreds, if not thousands being laid off every month.

The Game Awards 2024 happened this past week, and they finally covered the plague of the gaming industry, which is industry layoffs. How so? 🧵