So, unfortunately, most of the news I'm going to read out now is something that I'm calling The Night of Long Blades Part 2.
Very exciting.
But instead of Long Knives, it's Blades, because Xbox used to have Blades on the interface.
You know, I'm really clever, and everyone gets my cool joke.
And it's Part 2.
So witty.
Yeah.
They had their major layoffs, but that was
only about half of what they said they were going to lay off.
And
they've just
done a bit more! Yeah.
They said they're like up 75% done, but it looked more like 65% to me, which is really scary with what I'm about to talk about.
Okay, some of the fun things that happened.
So the story director for Gears of War E-Day was later four days after the game went gold.
That was nice.
It's consolidating several of the studios together.
But that hasn't been working out.
So that is looking bad.
And also Arcane is in that process as well.
Not finding any buyers or making any deals.
And was it Combustion up
So, unfortunately, most of the news I'm going to read out now is something that I'm calling The Night of Long Blades Part 2.
Very exciting.
But instead of Long Knives, it's Blades, because Xbox used to have Blades on the interface.
You know, I'm really clever, and everyone gets my cool joke.
And it's Part 2.
So witty.
Yeah.
They had their major layoffs, but that was
only about half of what they said they were going to lay off.
And
they've just
done a bit more! Yeah.
They said they're like up 75% done, but it looked more like 65% to me, which is really scary with what I'm about to talk about.
Okay, some of the fun things that happened.
So the story director for Gears of War E-Day was later four days after the game went gold.
That was nice.
It's consolidating several of the studios together.
But that hasn't been working out.
So that is looking bad.
And also Arcane is in that process as well.
Not finding any buyers or making any deals.
And was it Combustion up
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