We Implemented Everything – Infection Podcast Episode 468

1900 Microsoft layoffs, Losing more streamers on the rise and more on this week’s episode of Infection Podcast

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• Epic

• • • ‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games to contest Apple’s ‘27% tax’ on outside payments | Fortune
    • Epic’s Tim Sweeney calls Apple App Store changes ‘hot garbage’ – The Verge

• Twitch

• • • Riot Games Shuts Down Effort to Build a Streaming Rival to Twitch – Bloomberg
    • Streamers who rely on Twitch Prime Gaming subs are getting a slight pay cut – The Verge
    • Twitch is experimenting with 4K and multi-encode livestreaming. – The Verge

• Source: Introducing the Enhanced Broadcasting Beta

• Day Before

• • The Day Before Devs: “We Implemented Everything Shown In the Trailers”

• Economy

• • 35% of devs affected by layoffs last year, says GDC survey | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Games industry leaders braced ‘for up to two years of pain’ | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Riot lays off 530 staff, Riot Forge shutting down | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Tencent’s Riot Games Cuts 530 Jobs, Saying It Has Lost Focus – Bloomberg
  • People Can Fly reduces its workforce | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Black Forest Games reportedly cuts 50% of employees | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce – IGN
    • Microsoft lays off most of Activision Blizzard esports organization | VentureBeat
    • Blizzard cancels survival game following layoffs – The Verge
  • Roughly half of Devolver’s Artificer studio laid off | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Ruiner Developer Reikon Games Lays Off 80% Of Studio
  • Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees – The Verge
  • Wimo Games confirms shuts down | GamesIndustry.biz

• Activision

• • Activision updates Call of Duty code of conduct to combat toxicity | GamesIndustry.biz