{"id":153543,"date":"2024-04-16T04:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T04:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=153543"},"modified":"2024-04-16T04:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T04:47:17","slug":"left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=153543","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Left high and dry\u2019: Confessions of a laid-off gaming industry worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming is a culturally ascendant entertainment format, but gaming companies are struggling to take advantage of the rise of the medium. Among the recent series of gaming layoffs were a cut of 530 staffers at Riot Games and a cull of 1,900 Microsoft employees across the company\u2019s Activision Blizzard and Xbox divisions.\u00a0&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/marketing\/left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker\/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_source=general-rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming is a culturally ascendant entertainment format, but gaming companies are struggling to take advantage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker.jpg",1440,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker-300x125.jpg",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker-768x320.jpg",640,267,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker-1024x427.jpg",640,267,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker.jpg",1440,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker.jpg",1440,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker-1024x427.jpg",1024,427,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/153543-left-high-and-dry-confessions-of-a-laid-off-gaming-industry-worker-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Entertainment<\/a>","tag_info":"Entertainment","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}