Overview
- TheGamer enacted broad cuts across editorial, with features lead Jade King saying her entire team was dismissed alongside other staff.
- Current and former employees told VGC that multiple section teams were “decimated,” and some remaining staff were surprised by the scale.
- Editors still at the site say it will continue in a slimmed-down form, but they have not been told who remains or how coverage will be produced.
- Parent company Valnet also owns OpenCritic, Game Rant and Polygon, and Polygon’s sale earlier this year coincided with notable staff departures.
- VGC said it had requested comment from Valnet, and GamesIndustry.biz highlighted data indicating more than 1,200 video game journalists left the industry over the past two years.