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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 5:54PM Gun Barrier said

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omfg thats a lot of unemployed people all in one place. Good luck to them.
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 6:00PM Apollo26 said

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600 Jobs!?

Jesus......
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 6:10PM Ignatius said

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I wonder when this is going to stop. Seriously, how many jobs have been lost altogether, over 200,000+?
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Posted: Feb 5th 2009 12:43AM (Unverified) said

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"how many jobs have been lost altogether, over 200,000+?"

In the game industry? Surely not nearly that many. Probably not even 20k.

In the US it has been around 500k a month since november.

In the world... ??? Many millions.
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 6:12PM Daker3 said

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Mmm...Remember when wanting to be a video game designer sounded like a good idea?
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Posted: Feb 5th 2009 8:02AM (Unverified) said

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Thankfully the indie scene has been reborn thanks to the PSN/XBLA/iPhone market streams.
The corporate world is completely fucked (thats what happens when you sell your company away in chunks to gamblers who call themselves traders), but the bedroom scene is the best its been in well over a decade.

If you want to code, code away, you can even get rich off it now.
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 6:19PM (Unverified) said

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:(
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 6:24PM Shagittarius said

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I can't believe they had 2400+ jobs to begin with, you know, based on the volume of stuff they put out.
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 6:28PM jynxycat said

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Zing!
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 6:42PM (Unverified) said

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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 6:57PM MarkHawk said

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Hope my friends job there is safe.
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Posted: Feb 5th 2009 12:19AM Sora said

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What amazes me is that with the constant crap they put out they could manage to pay 600 employees AND all the others until now.
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Posted: Feb 5th 2009 1:38AM JRMG said

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Recession or not, nobody working at THQ should be safe. That company has been on a downward spiral for a long time, just like midway. I feel bad for all the designers who couldn't develop any original ideas and had to be stuck making licensed THQ crap. They must have seen this coming.
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