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The Escapist murica-fires Editor-in-Chief - loses Yahtzee Croshaw and entire video team in hours (twitter.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Deestan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Fired or resigned, extremely incomplete list:

Nick Calandra - Editor-in-Chief
Yahtzee Croshaw - Zero Punctuation, Adventure is Nigh, Extra Punctuation
Jack Packard - Adventure is Nigh
Amy Campbell - Adventure is Nigh, 3 Minute Reviews
KC Nwosu - Adventure is Nigh, 3 Minute Reviews
Jesse Galena - Adventure is Nigh, 3 Minute Reviews
Sebastian Ruiz - Cold Take, Stuff of Legend
JM8 - Editor, Design Delve
Darren Moody - Columnist
Marty Sliva - 3 Minute Review

IP of Zero Punctuation belongs to Escapist, so that is dead as of now.

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[-] TCGM@lemmy.world 122 points 11 months ago

With a loss of people like that, The Escapist is dead too.

The pro gamer move would be to pick up the Zero Punctuation rights at auction.

[-] FerolisD@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Seriously what were they thinking? I'm literally only subscribed to their YT channel for Yahtzee stuff. Everyone who bought a membership is gonna cancel now.

[-] Radicaldog@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They probably had no idea Yahtzee and co were that loyal to Nick. That said, I'm shocked Yahtzee was never given an ownership stake, as an insurance against... Well, this exact scenario.