{"id":770874,"date":"2026-09-14T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770874\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:54:09","slug":"sources-brutal-ign-layoffs-hit-multiple-departments-and-long-time-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770874\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Brutal IGN Layoffs Hit Multiple Departments And Long-Time Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"

IGN\u2018s Summer of Gaming has become another summer of layoffs<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2018s Greg Miller and Last Stand\u2018s Colin Moriarty more than a decade ago. Macy was a senior commerce team editor at the site and frequent host on its popular Nintendo Voice Chat podcast. He confirmed his departure on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

IGN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

I’m so sorry to hear this, Seth. You’re a rockstar and brought so much to the IGN team across many departments that most people can’t publicly see. You didn’t deserve this. I think the world of you and am here if you ever want to chat or if I can be helpful somehow.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ryan McCaffrey (@DMC_Ryan) September 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Kotaku understands that today\u2019s layoffs have hit multiple departments across the video game website\u2019s business. The scale of the layoffs is not yet clear, though they may be influenced in some cases by employees\u2019 remote status and whether they were willing to relocate.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy team had a huge content day today on IGN, covering the launch of Valve\u2019s Steam Frame. So this seems like a good time as any to say that I was affected by today\u2019s layoffs,\u201d Bo Moore, senior manager of tech coverage, posted on Bluesky<\/a>. \u201cMy byline is only on one of the 7 stories we posted this morning, but I edited every one, worked late last week and logged on early this morning to make sure everything was on track for one of our biggest coverage days of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s annual LA event for Summer Game Fest, wrapped up. The company had \u201ca habit of doing layoffs right after a successful event,\u201d one IGN Creators Guild member told Aftermath<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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\u2018s previous publisher, John Davison, exited the company just over a year ago and was not formally replaced.<\/p>\n

Update 9\/14\/2026, 5:49 p.m. ET: Added further comments from staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IGN\u2018s Summer of Gaming has become another summer of layoffs. Sources tell Kotaku that the top video game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20964,254424,59,188381,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-digital-media","tag-game-journalism","tag-gb","tag-ign","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}