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Hello Friends!

We're all set to record another podcast but would love some more questions from you lovely lot.  This is for the TripleJump Podcast! Remember, as our esteemed financial supporters, we'll be exclusively coming to you for weekly discussion topics, so please read the following guidelines before submitting:

- No controversial or naughty questions please

- This is a video game podcast about video games so please keep the questions video-game-related

- Going forwards, we'd love it if you can base your questions on any video game news that drops in the week. It doesn't just have to be big serious stories though, so ask us about anything you find on the web. While we will still answer non-news questions from time to time, we're hoping that with a different focus we can avoid repetition.

- If there's a particular event or happening in the industry that you'd like us to discuss in detail, feel free! We like to address one 'big question' per week to headline each show, and pepper in smaller questions throughout

- Try to avoid topics we've covered before

- "Questions on a postcard" (don't make your question too long!)

- We typically record on Thursday morning, so try to get your questions in by Wednesday afternoon!

Thanks all! We look forward to reading through your offerings, and we can't overstate how much we appreciate your support on Patreon and elsewhere!

love ya <3

- BAP

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Cameron Keywood

Hi BAP While it's never been a better time to be a gamer, it seems like there has never been a worse time to be a game developer as many studios have recently announced layoffs, Even before the pandemic, the video game sector was hailed as larger than the combined film/music industries. Post-pandemic, it has continued to thrive, with the UK gaming market alone estimated at over £7 billion. However, in the last month alone, seven studios have cut jobs, with UK publisher Team17 and Naughty Dog being the latest examples as of writing. Epic Games' CEO Tim Sweeney revealed in a public email that they overspent on investments and Fortnite's growth, making layoffs necessary and that they want to embrace the metaverse (sigh). These layoffs draw parallels to Nintendo's fiscal challenges in 2014 with the struggling Wii U. Instead of layoffs, then-president and CEO Satoru Iwata and other executives took pay cuts, demonstrating an alternative to reducing employee numbers while addressing financial difficulties. Why do you think that these layoffs keep happening, is it just pure greed by corpo bigwigs or are there other reasons ? kind regards Cameron J Keywood

Cameron Keywood

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/topics/layoffs There is a games union as well - https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/