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Getting Fired at Microsoft Is as Easy as Thinking Different

Apple’s arch rival, Microsoft, doesn’t like to put an emphasis on the individual. Nor does the company encourage free thinking. It’s sort of like “the McDonalds of computing,” according to a person who got fired by Microsoft after five years of nothing but meetings and strategy reviews. ...

24 April 2012
15:51 GMT

Blizzard Lays Off 600 Employees, Development Not Affected

Video game developer Blizzard Entertainment has announced that it will be laying off about 600 of its employees as a result of the completion of a review regarding theorganization’s core needs.600 is quite a high number given that reports from 2009 stated that Blizzard had about 4,600 workers and apparently add...

1 March 2012
05:56 GMT

Mac Game Publisher Aspyr Fires Half Crew

The folks at Big Download have learned “through several unnamed but reliable sources” that the publisher of multiple Mac game ports, Aspyr Media, laid off roughly 50 per cent of its staff two weeks ago, with the news hitting the wires just now. Reportedly, the maker of the GameAgent utility now has only a...

15 December 2009
07:07 GMT

Apple Store Employees Fired over 'Nothing'

ifoAppleStore, the website handling news and information about Apple Inc.'s retail stores, reported last week that a Glendale Apple Store employee was fired for posting photos taken by customers on display iPhones. Although categorized as "innocuous" by the publication, it seems that Apple isn't fine with s...

26 May 2008
08:27 GMT

CNet's Official Comments Regarding Gerstmann's Departure

First, after the rumors regarding Jeff Gerstmann's removal from the editor position he had at Gamespot for 11 years, CNet has issued a short official comment: "GameSpot takes its editorial integrity extremely seriously. For over a decade, Gamespot and the many members of its editorial team have produced thousand...

3 December 2007
04:15 GMT

The List of People Fired For Speaking Their Own Mind Keeps Growing?

A few days ago we found out that Harvey Smith, former Deux Ex lead designer commented about the latest game he worked on as a designer, Blacksite: Area 51, to be a "F****d up" project, that went gold straight from the alpha stage. Freedom of speech? Nope: Midway studio head Denise Fulton has made an announcement tha...

3 December 2007
03:27 GMT

Here's the Kane & Lynch Video Review that Got Jeff Fired

Well, now that Jeff Gerstmann's Kane & Lynch video review is available for everyone to see (check it out at the bottom of this piece of news), things tend to get a bit more clear. Only a bit though, since neither Eidos, nor Gerstmann himself have gone public on this burning issue that is who or what led to Jeff&...

1 December 2007
07:40 GMT

Lindsay Lohan Pulls the Plug on Her Mother!

It was about time, too. Yes, well, as much as I don't trust Lindsay Lohan's "rebirth from her own ashes" media stunt, I must say that - if this is really true - it's probably the smartest move she has done so far. She should have begun with this, and then maybe everyone else would have taken her a bit ...

11 October 2007
03:46 GMT

Angelina Fired!

This is just unbelievable. A blasphemy! A scandal! No, I'm kidding - I just can't believe that someone on the face of this earth actually had the nerve to fire Angelina Jolie. I mean, it's just outrageous. Angelina is such a good person, she's doing so much good in this world, and there is actuall...

29 September 2007
07:03 GMT


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