Gamers.com does without "luxuries"
Sacks more than half of staff
One story that we missed in the recent spate of doom 'n' gloom revelations from various gaming-related dot coms and publishers was the announcement last week that Dennis "Thresh" Fong's self-styled first gaming web portal Gamers.com has laid off over half of its staff. Bizarrely CEO Geoffrey Mulligan declared that the sacked personnel were luxuries that the company could do without. I'm sure that comes as a great comfort to the 50 people who have been added to the great dot com junk pile as a result of this move, although the revelation that the next victims of the cut-backs could be "senior management" might help to bring a faint smile back to their faces as they exit the building. And in an ironic twist, the last story in the "computer gaming news" section on Gamers.com (which hadn't been updated since last Tuesday at the time of writing) was a report on the closure of Gamecenter, starting with the fateful words "the dot-bombs just keep stacking up".
As Anne Robinson would say, "Gamers.com, you are the weakest link. Goodbye."