IGN‘s Summer of Gaming has become another summer of layoffs. Sources tell Kotaku that the top video game website is cutting loose even more of its top talent, including some of its most public faces, like long-time video hosts Seth Macy and Brian Altano. The latter has worked at IGN since 2009 and has been one of the main hosts of its popular PlayStation podcast Beyond since the departures of Kinda Funny’s Greg Miller and Last Stand’s Colin Moriarty more than a decade ago.
IGN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kotaku understands that today’s layoffs have hit multiple departments across the video game website’s business. The scale of the layoffs is not yet clear, though they may be influenced in some cases by employees’ remote status and whether they were willing to relocate.
The latest round of cuts comes just months after a smaller group of employees, including engineers, were laid off just days after IGN Live, the site’s annual LA event for Summer Game Fest, wrapped up. The company had “a habit of doing layoffs right after a successful event,” one IGN Creators Guild member told Aftermath at the time.
In addition to IGN Live, the website recently put on its annual on-site coverage blitz of San Diego Comic-Con earlier in the summer with interviews hosted by Altano, among others. Ziff Davis, the site’s owner, acquired a bunch of other video game websites back in 2024, including Eurogamer and Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and has been instituting sporadic editorial cuts ever since. IGN‘s previous publisher, John Davison, exited the company just over a year ago and was not formally replaced.
