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TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs | VGC

It’s the latest in a series of job losses across games media…

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Video game website TheGamer has suffered widespread layoffs, according to former staff.

On Wednesday, several former members of the site's editorial teams took to social media to announce that they'd been laid off. According to multiple former employees speaking anonymously to VGC, entire section teams have been "decimated."


According to those still at the outlet, TheGamer will continue in a slimmed-down form, though those who remain aren't clear on how that will manifest. According to staff who spoke to VGC, these layoffs have been expected, but the scale has surprised those still at the site.

VGC has reached out to Valnet for comment.

TheGamer was founded in 2017. TheGamer's parent company, Valnet, is also behind OpenCritic, Game Rant, and, as of earlier this year, Polygon.



Oh look, more videogame "journalists" have no readership and are therefore out of a job.

 

[Kacho]

I wonder if Tessa Kaur is safe

Opinion  Thread '[TheGamer] It's Unbelievable That Assassin's Creed Cancelled Its Coolest Concept Ever'

Oct 10, 2025

It's Unbelievable That Assassin's Creed Cancelled Its Coolest Concept Ever

Leave it to Ubisoft to refuse to take a moral stand.

www.thegamer.com

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According to a new report by Game File, Ubisoft had a game set in post-Civil War America in early development. It would have been set during the Reconstruction period in the 1860s-70s, and you would have played a formerly enslaved Black man who is recruited by the Assassins to return to the South and fight for the rights of other former slaves, confronting the nascent Ku Klux Klan while he's at it.

The employees (current and former) who spoke to Game File about the project had been...

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[calico]

It's Unbelievable That TheGamer Laid Off Its Coolest Employees Ever

 

[Odinnii]

And nothing of value was lost.

 

[yogaflame]

They reap what they sow. Thegamer is very bias (I remember how much they hate Stellar blade) and infested with leftist writers with twisted woke agendas

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

 

[CLW]

 

[calico]

I wonder if Tessa Kaur is safe

Nope, the iconic duo of BS user & Laid Off has sadly struck again.

 

[HAYA8U5A]

 

[Kacho]

Nope, the iconic duo of BS user & Laid Off has sadly struck again.

 

[Gaiff]

Find a real job.

 

[Novaex]

Just replace every gaming "journalist" with AI writing guides and get over with it. One of the biggest joke professions out there.

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

 

[CLW]

Find a real job.

Learn to CODE

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I blocked this site from showing up in my Google News a long time ago. Always seemed like low effort clickbait. I'm kind of surprised to learn there were actual people writing their articles still.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

It's hard to feel anything for leftish outlets, which unfortunately is 95% of them. They use game journalism as a cover for politics.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Nope, the iconic duo of BS user & Laid Off has sadly struck again.

If that's her attitude about employment, she might want to find a normal FT job and stick with just that. Pretty weird that'd she'd openly promote she wants to pursue a steady job, but at the same time admit she'll be freelancing on the side too. Seeking multi-employment isnt the kind of thing you tell the world.

 

[Topher]

Half of them....

 

[BigBeauford]

Pretty sure at least one of their staff regularly posts over there.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Find a real job.

Writing for games or a consultancy company.

 

[AmuroChan]

Learn to CODE

It's so ironic that for these people, learning to be a plumber or do construction is probably a much safer and more sustainable career in the near future than learning to code. The very people that they looked and spoke down to just a few years ago are the ones who are not being laid off en masse.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Pretty sure at least one of their staff regularly posts over there.

A lot of them call Gamers a mistake....their outlet is called: The Gamer?

 

[ReBurn]

I'm shocked

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Who knew The Gamer has so many writers and editors. And this doesn't even include any other people not listed, or off the list due to getting laid off.

About | TheGamer

TheGamer is a digital publication founded in 2017. Our gaming experts specialize in creating in-depth game guides, breaking gaming news, and opinion pieces.

www.thegamer.com

 

[diffusionx]

Nope, the iconic duo of BS user & Laid Off has sadly struck again.

wait writing libslop at a website nobody read got her enough money to pay for a trip to Bali?

I guess the USAID checks started bouncing?

 

[consoul]

Journalist reports entire teams have been "decimated", demonstrating that they do not know what that word means.

 

[rkofan87]

 

[LectureMaster]

I blocked this site from showing up in my Google News a long time ago. Always seemed like low effort clickbait. I'm kind of surprised to learn there were actual people writing their articles still.

After all, my man Donkey still loves Alyssa Mercante and Kotaku more .

 

[j0hnnix]

 

[The Mad Draklor]

I'm going to miss those banger headlines like "Final Fantasy 7 Remake Developer Says The Last Of Us Part 2 Is A Benchmark For Video Game Diversity" and "Hogwarts Legacy Made Us Ignore Transphobia, So What's Next?".

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I'm going to miss those banger headlines like "Final Fantasy 7 Remake Developer Says The Last Of Us Part 2 Is A Benchmark For Video Game Diversity" and "Hogwarts Legacy Made Us Ignore Transphobia, So What's Next?".

It's amazing when you think of it.

Compare every industry out there churning out products or services, and how low brow and low value most entertainment and media really are. If it's not for snazzy trailers or baity titles to hook in tempted consumers, nobody would even want, know, or care about about the content. People would rather spend $1 for a cup of coffee at McDonalds than pay $1 to unlock website content. That's how low value the general public values editorial media.

And they wonder why the industry has such shaky employment and so many customers view the content as total junk.

 

[TommyCronin6969]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

you post this on retardera you will get banned and sued

 

[Loomy]

According to those still at the outlet, TheGamer will continue in a slimmed-down form, though those who remain aren't clear on how that will manifest.

 

[Durin]

Never actually went to the website, only ever saw them make retarded headlines that get clowned on by the internet.

Only fanbase of that site I can think of would be on the purple forum.

 

[wipeout364]

Well at least maybe when I search for something game related their shitty articles and reviews won't be as high on the search.

 

[DaciaJC]

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving rag.

 

[LordCBH]

Guess they better learn to code.

 

[semiconscious]

On Wednesday, several former members of the site's editorial teams took to social media to announce that they'd been laid off. According to multiple former employees speaking anonymously to VGC, entire section teams have been "decimated."...

editorial teams? at a video game website? how many editorial teams do they have?...

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Good. Keep em coming...

 

[Kacho]

 

[bighugeguns]

This is what happens when you spread bad rumours about Xbox, bad voodoo participating in that shit.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Watching now. lol

 

[LectureMaster]

Is TheGamer part of the gaming history tho?

 

[Pejo]

PCGamer next, please.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

PCGamer next, please.

I dont follow the site, and barely read the site ever. But I remember people saying the site is political.

But back in the day, PC Gamer magazine was awesome. Like most PC game mags, really thick with lots of content and text articles. While video game mags were tons of pics, shitty editorial and tons of ads. My bro used to buy the mag every month and I remember his first one had Transport Tycoon on the cover.

Those PC Gamer mags were ruthless back then. Games would get less than 50% score all the time. I remember my share of reading junky buggy games getting 10 or 20%.

 

[yogaflame]

PCGamer next, please.

And the ultimate price, IGN which has the worse leftist and woke infestation.

 

[Itchy Tickles]

So much journalism, in every form, is clickbait or "personal opinions" from people who think writing a tweet is experience. Nowadays you just watch a video or 2, reads user reviews / forum posts, and kinda see what has the most cross over to help you decide. Professional journalism, for the most part, died years ago, so hearing news like this is on par with hearing someone lost a blue tick beside their username.

 

[digimaster7]

Trash website with trash article that always shill for certain game, next for layoff are gamerant, kotaku, and ign

Let's Give Concord A Chance

Concord deserves time to improve.

www.thegamer.com

 

[neocycle]

Finally some good news.