Sadly #Discord is running layoff at its impacting 170 employees or 17% of current workforce. In a leaked memo, the company justified the move as they over-hired, same reason of other markets/co, believing on opportunities that the pandemic could've brought. #Gaming #GamingNews

In a semi impromptu Town Hall of #Twitch CEO Dan Clancy about the massive layoff at the Amazon-owned streaming service, while acknowledging that they had been operating at loss, they will not be sold out by Amazon. Keep in mind, Amazon can just fold Twitch. #Gaming #GamingNews

Unfortunately Amazon is laying off employees of Prime Video, MGM Studios & Twitch. #Twitch includes 500+ employees being let go or 35% of current workforce & CEO Dan Clancy will address on stream about immediate impact to the community on 1/11 at 1PM-ET. #Gaming #GamingNews

The Pokémon Company confirmed today that the #Pokemon TV app will be retired from digital stores TODAY and the app's network, which includes anime episodes and free content, will be sunset by March 28th, 2024. #Gaming #GamingNews

Also at #CES2024, AMD announced a new 16GB VRAM variant of the Radeon RX 7600 XT which aims to be a entry level for 2K or 1440p screens for budget gamers that are looking go beyond Full HD 1080p without overkilling their pocket. Available on 01/24 at $329. #Gaming #GamingNews

Also on #CES2024, Nvidia confirmed that it will bring G-Sync & Reflex support for its Cloud Gaming GeForce Now with the announcement that Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 will be the latest from Activision Blizzard games entering the service. #Gaming #GamingNews

Nvidia announced the Super variant of the RTX GeForce 4080, 4070 and 4070 Ti & respectively are an improvement of 1-5% (4080) for $999, 15% (4070) for $799 & 10% (4070 Ti) for $599. The original 4070 GPU will now cost $549 & the Ti variant will be retired. #Gaming #GamingNews

To go along with the tech festivities at #CES2024, Apple revealed that will release its AR/VR glasses Vision Pro at the US on Feb 2 with preorders starting at Jan 19 at a price of $3499 with 256GB of storage. #Gaming #GamingNews

Sources at Windows Central claims that a potential release of Hi-Fi Rush to Nintendo Switch is part of a plan by Microsoft to bring many past games outside #Xbox in the future as a semi-new strategy. Since heading to buy Activision Blizzard King, Microsoft has already being doing deals with competitors about still getting the conglomerate's games, as a proof that housing gaming IP is not the real purpose of the purchase. While there aren't many details besides the noise about Hi-Fi Rush port of Nintendo Switch (and maybe Playstation 4/5), since last year it was suggested that a revisit of Banjo Kazooie by Rare is already on schedule. #Gaming #GamingNews

And #CDProjektRed is NOT for sale as CEO Adam Kicinski told an outlet that the company is not interested on being bought & while denying talking with Sony, he revealed that Microsoft started a conversation, but CD Projekt decided against continuing. #Gaming #GamingNews