Gigaboots Industry Burning Block Supercut 2024 Part 1 mhee12 2024-12-26 | Part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=psQ8HeKczs82023 SuperCut: youtu.be/-19HIGPJGUAActivision Merger: youtube.com/watch?v=V-iGNnv-UTMRecord In Name0:00:00 Intro0:03:53 BTD 254 - Slipgate Ironworks layoffs and First Contact Shutdown 0:05:37 BTD 255 - Unity and Twitch layoffs 0:45:32 BTD 256 - AI Usage and Xbox Multiplatforms 1:25:06 BTD 257 - Riot and Blizzard Layoffs 1:31:45 BTD 258 - Sega Mobile and Eidos Layoffs 2:37:48 BTD 259 - Xbox Leak and Toys for Bob layoffs 2:49:17 BTD 260 - Bamco Cancelled 5 Games and No New Sony Title until March 2025 3:09:13 BTD 262 - Sony Lays off 900 people 3:17:23 BTD 263 - WB Live Service & Adult Swim Shutdown 3:31:25 BTD 264 - Deviation Games Shutdown & Saber Leaves Embracer 3:38:50 BTD 265 - Bungie and Riot Rebooting Games 4:10:36 BTD 266 - Take 2 has Purchased Gearbox4:18:35 BTD 267 - 100+ Xbox Support Layoffs affect FFXVI and AI Chat Bot Announced4:30:58 BTD 268 - Dead Space sold poorly, Back Compat Xbox Console4:48:53 BTD 269 - Rockstar Laysoff 600 people4:50:15 BTD 270 - Bethesda Franch Shuts Down & Embracer Breaks up4:58:38 BTD 271 - Square loses $150 mil on cancelled games, Rockstar officially laysoff 600 people
Gigaboots Industry Burning Block Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 mhee12 2025-12-25 | Special Thanks to @ultrapyrusbrawler for the Timestamp Help through the Year and Special Thanks to @screensavorstudios.bsky.social for the Thumbnail Art. Detailed Timestamps and Details Here: docs.google.com/document/d/115vx3UltuLGuA7MugBDSnRoynNY6PtptEh29hGwFpjQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.f5p13jg4toag00:00:00 BTD #305 - RTX 5000 announced, WB Montreal & Splash Damage layoffs00:36:00 BTD #306 - Matthew Ball's 2025 State of Gaming, Sony cancels live service games, Nvidia mandating reviewers to have ai frames in reviews01:35:02BTD #307 - Concord's $400 million failure, FC 25 and Veilguard "underperformed", Unknown 9 franchise has been cancelled02:03:52BTD #308 - The “Dan was Right” Segment, layoffs at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Reflections02:34:46BTD #309 - MultiVersus Is shutting down, Iron Galaxy lays off 66 employees, Bend Studios’ Layoffs due to live service game being cancelled 02:58:34 BTD #310 - Crytek announces layoffs, Rocksteady working on new, single-player Batman game03:14:51BTD #311 - Microsoft unveils Muse, a generative AI model for gameplay ideation03:26:24BTD #312 - Warner Bros. shuts down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, WB San Diego03:45:39BTD #313 - Sony lays off unknown number of workers at PlayStation Visual Arts Studio and PlayStation Studios Malaysia 03:53:33 BTD #314 - Spectre Divide and its developer Mountaintop Studios are shutting down 04:08:37BTD #315 - ARK: Survival Evolved releases an AI generated trailer 04:16:15BTD #316 - Hogwarts Legacy DLC reportedly canceled by WB Games04:22:26BTD #317 - Eidos Montreal lays off 75 employees04:26:43BTD #318 - Doug Bowser: "some people...may not be able to afford [the Switch 2's] price point. That's why we wanted to make the other Switch platforms available."04:44:05BTD #319 - Sony confirms price hike for PS5 & PS+ in several regions, Niantic lays off 68 workers 04:54:47 BTD #320- Tariffs 04:57:43BTD #321 - EA lays off over 300 employees, including 100 at Respawn, Polygon sold to Valnet05:14:33 BTD #323 - Fairgames loses studio founder Jade Raymond, Ubisoft shares plummet 20%, Microsoft laying off about 6,000 employees 05:56:22 BTD #324 - Marathon will need to be one of the top five best selling games of the year to be a success06:01:54 BTD #325 - Marathon marketing cancelled, EA cancels Black Panther game, Playtonic hit by layoffs06:20:56 BTD #326 - People Can Fly cancels Project Bifrost and Square Enix’s Project Gemini06:28:50 BTD #327 - Disney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney for copyright infringement06:39:54 BTD #328 - Bungie delays Marathon indefinitely06:47:11 BTD #329 - Front Mission 3 (2025) appears to replace 2D art assets with generative AI, Build A Rocket Boy begins layoffs Process06:58:20 BTD #330 - Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees, Switch price increase announced, John Romero's new FPS loses funding07:51:06BTD #331 - Krafton delays Subnautica 2 to 2026 as rumors circulate that the delay is to avoid paying a $250 million bonus for dev team07:54:51 BTD #332 - Steam now bans games that violate the "rules and standards" of payment processors and banks, Virtuos lays off 270 employees 08:18:46 BTD #333 - Itch-dot-io has hidden its entire NSFW game library due to mounting pressure from payment processors08:56:04 BTD #334 - WB Games Montreal job listings point to new live service DC game09:01:34 BTD #337 - PS5 price increase announced by Sony09:12:27 BTD #338 - King confirms 200 job cuts with AI tools set to replace laid-off devs, Crystal Dynamics has second round of layoffs this year09:17:46 BTD #339 - Saudi Arabian company Qiddiya acquiresEVO, Firaxis & Dreamhaven laid offs09:25:24BTD #341 - The Wolf Among Us 2’s status is a mystery09:27:36 BTD #343 - EA going private after $55 billion deal, Microsoft hikes Xbox Game Pass prices up to a staggering 50%09:53:33 BTD #344 - Call of Duty lost $300 million in sales due to Game Pass, Funcom shutters Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders10:05:17 BTD #345 - MercurySteam reportedly has been forcing crunch for months10:14:27 BTD #346 - Next Xbox won't be cheap, according to Sarah Bond, Microsoft increases the price of Xbox dev kits by $50010:28:47 BTD #347 - Amazon reportedly "gutting" its video game division as part of 14,000 company wide job cuts, Bonus Xbox 10:54:20 BTD #348 - NetEase Games closes Bad Brain Game Studios, Square Enix announces mass layoffs, while also aiming to have genAI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 202711:09:10 BTD #350 - Avalanche closes its Liverpool studio, Crystal Dynamics announces yet more layoffs11:14:46 BTD #351 - Micron to end Crucial consumer memory business amid AI-driven supply strain11:29:31BTD #353 - Naughty Dog devs reportedly in mandatory overtime to complete internal demo by December
Gigaboots Industry Burning Block Supercut 2024 Part 2 mhee12 2024-12-26 | Part 1: youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7qe0nsHkY2023 SuperCut: youtu.be/-19HIGPJGUA0:00:00 BTD 272 - Helldivers PSN Kerfuffle & Microsoft Closes Arkane Austin and Ghostwire 2:04:47 BTD 273 - Ubisoft cancelled a Division Game & Phoenix Labs Layoffs 2:13:05 BTD 274 - Neil Drunkmann Interview & IGN Layoffs 2:27:34 BTD 275 - Drunkmann Interview Taken Down & MS Esports is Dead 2:36:01 BTD 276 - Avalanche Studio Layoffs and Closures 2:38:58 BTD 277 -Sumo Group and VR Chat Layoffs 2:40:53 BTD 278 - PS5 PS+ Bundle Rant & Pieces and Paradox Layoffs 2:53:14 BTD 279 - iOS AAA Game Sales bomb and Remakes Rant 3:26:00 BTD 280 - Tose Financial Losses & Surgent Studios Layoffs 3:29:08 BTD 281 - Xbox Game Pass Price Increase & Pirahna Bytes closure 3:41:58 BTD 282 - 343 Downsizes & Netherrealm Mobile Layoffs 3:48:47 BTD 283 - Humble Games Layoffs & AI in the Workforce 3:55:47 BTD 284 - Bungie Layoffs and Olympics want NFT games 4:11:00 BTD 285 - Ready at Dawn Closure & Bungie Justification of Layoffs 4:34:39 BTD 288 - Ouka Studio Closure & Concord gettin 600 players playing at launch 5:12:30 BTD 289 - Ballistic Moon, Rocksteady Layoffs & Concord taken Offline 5:53:41 BTD 290 - PS5 Pro is 780 USD Dollars & Microsoft Layoffs 650 employees 7:07:39 BTD 291 - MS Stock Buyback after layoffs 7:09:39 BTD 292 - EVERYTHING IS FINE FOR ONE WEEK7:11:13 BTD 293 - Hi-Rez layoffs, Ubisoft Workers Strike7:25:16 BTD 294 - Tencent and Friends potential buyout of Ubisoft & Megalights 7:38:11 BTD 295 - Bamco Cancelling 5 Projects & DontNod Layoffs 7:48:35 BTD 296 - Netflix AAA Studio shuts down & Falcom Considers AI for Eng Localization 8:02:47 BTD 297 - Sony Closes Firewalk Studios & Neon Koi 8:10:35 BTD 299 - Tequila Works File for Bankrupcy and Embracer Buys Miniclip8:12:38 BTD 300 - Sony in talks to aquire Kadokawa8:15:46 BTD 301 - Ubisoft Shuts Down XDefiant closes San Fran Studio with execs staying8:37:13 End Notes
The Gigaboots MSAB Merger SuperCut Jan 2022 to Jul 2023 mhee12 2024-12-25 | Gigaboots MSAB Supercut Jan 2022 - Jul 202300:00 January 18, 2022 - Microsoft Announces It Will Acquire Activision Blizzard.27:56 14 Feb 2022 - Xbox Multi-Plat (Including Switch) Promise Statement38:25 Feb 28 2022 - Leaked Union Busting Strategy/Gold Parachutes Goals41:39 21 Mar 2022 - Leads Staff of Perfect Dark Team Left51:37 23 May 2022 - Activision Union Busting news and The Activision Blizzard Diversity Tool01:09:25 30 May 2022 - National Labour Board Seeing Activision Union Busting01:12:25 8 Jul 2022 - It begins: UK Starts Investigation of MSAB Acquisition01:14:29 5 Aug 2022 - New Zealand Challenges MS about Deal & Sony is Furious about the Deal01:19:16 12 Aug 2022 - Microsoft Criticizing Sony’s PS Plus Exclusives and may force to expose during Acquisition01:22:15 9 Sept 2022 - Jim Ryan Criticizes the Deal and... THE MACAFFERY TWEET01:31:33 30 Sept 2022 - Stadia shuts down on January 1st01:40:05 Oct 12, 2022 - Xbox Says PlayStation Is Too Big to Fail01:45:58 27 Oct 2022 Phil Spencer says that they might raise the price of consoles after Holiday Season01:51:28 "3 November 2022 - S&P Global reports FTC is more likely to make progress on their agenda; looking at Amazon acquiring IRobot and Microsoft's acquisition of ActiBlizzard"01:58:15 18 Nov 2022 - MS CEO Satya Nadella said "Us Acquiring Activision would increase Competition"02:00:19 1 Dec 2022 - Politico reports that the FTC is likely to stop the Activision-Blizzard acquisition02:04:18 December 9th The FTC is suing Microsoft for the Activision-Blizzard Acquisition02:21:34 January 13 2023 Google and Nvidia express concerns to the FTC about the Microsoft-Activision Acquisition02:24:33 January 20 2023 - Part 1- Blizzard Got Shutdown by China02:26:35 January 20 2023 - Part 2: Microsoft lays off 10k employees03:04:07 Febuary 10 2023 Activision's Lulu Cheng Review of HBO's Last of Us & Bobby Kotick's UK TV rant03:13:30 Febuary 16 2023 Microsoft admits Game Pass cannibalizes game sales 03:18:49 Febuary 24 2023- Brad Smith claims that Microsoft has signed a contract with Nintendo to put Call of Duty on Switch03:29:27 March 3rd - EU is okay with the MSAB acquisition if they sign enough agreements03:38:38 March 17 2023 - Microsoft has gotten signed permission from six other companies for the Activision-Blizzard acquisition03:47:02 24 March 2023 - Arkane’s Matt Harvey said there was a PS5 Version of Redfall03:55:11 March 31 2023 - Microsoft cries to Washington About Japan not buying Xbox Consoles04:03:44 April 27 2023Microsoft’s Activision-Blizzard acquisition blocked by the UK's CMA due to Cloud Gaming04:23:45 May 5 2023 The Grumpy Phil Spencer Interview04:56:10 May 12 2023 CMA restricts Activision-Blizzard and Microsoft from investing in each other04:58:01 May 18 2023 EU Accepting Acti-Blizz Deal with Exceptions05:05:18 June 1 2023 Part 1 Lead Blizzard Employee Reveals Activision Marketing Tactics & The Bobby Kotick Interview05:08:22 June 1 2023 Part 2 Redfall Expose05:32:20 June 23 2023 FTC v Microsoft Lawsuit has Begun05:33:22 July 13 2023 FTC Failed to get an Injuction for ABMS Deal
Gigaboots Games Industry Burning Block Supercut 2023 mhee12 2024-12-22 | 00:00:00 Title and Special Thanks00:00:05 BTD 205 - Microsoft Lays off 10k employees 00:42:06 BTD 213 - Meta lays off 10,000 more workers00:46:49 BTD 221 - Pixelopus Shuts Down00:52:16 BTD 223 - Embracer Loses Billion Dollar Deal01:12:24 BTD 211- LUMINOUS PRODUCTIONS IS DEAD01:17:23 BTD 228 - Niantic lays off 230 employees01:20:35 BTD 235 - $2 billion Embracer Group deal was reportedly with Saudi Arabia-backed Savvy Gaming Group01:27:11 BTD 236 - BioWare lays off around 50 employees01:31:53 BTD 237 - Sony PS+ increase, Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down 01:59:40 BTD 239 - Unity Install Fee, Embracer Group interested to selling Gearbox 02:20:17 BTD 240 - Unity's Response from Last BTD, The Xbox Leak 03:29:34 BTD 241 - Hyenas is cancelled, Epic Games Layoffs, Jim Ryan has stepped down04:19:34 BTD 246 - Bungie Layoffs pt1, acquisitions galore 04:37:21 BTD 247 - Sony Delays 12 Planned Live Services05:03:09 BTD 248 - Sega of Amercia and Embracer Layoffs05:05:56 BTD 250 - Timesplitters Studio Shuts down05:09:24 BTD 251 - Bungie's layoffs reason 05:13:25 BTD 252 - E3 is Dead 05:36:00 BTD 253 - Bobby Kotick Is out 05:45:10 BTD 253 - Insomniac Leak06:49:35 The End....for nowTimestamps of the Shows Referenced:docs.google.com/document/d/1_ckDE3CX0yZ8sqKd6IO_irJVFMr2y8AFrYmD8bmPD5c/edit?usp=sharingGames Industry Layoffs Tracker Sitehttps://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2024
Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So! Finale mhee12 2016-10-24 | Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So! Finale
Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So! Part CORE!!!!! mhee12 2016-10-11 | Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So! Part CORE!!!!!
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Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So! Part Prison Island mhee12 2016-10-11 | Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So! Part Prison Island
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Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So! mhee12 2016-08-15 | Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So!
Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So! mhee12 2016-08-14 | Xenoblade Chronicles because @Evilmario said So!
Trails in the Sky SC Stream + Infiniscene Test mhee12 2016-02-15 | Trying out the Beta of Infiniscene instead of OBS. also playing Trails in the Sky.
Trails in the Sky SC Stream + Infiniscene Test mhee12 2016-02-15 | Trying out the Beta of Infiniscene instead of OBS. also playing Trails in the Sky.
Nintendo Photo Shoot at GTA Smash Club mhee12 2014-10-19 | Nintendo Event at Toronto for Super Smash Bros for 3DS.
