Looks like one of the icons in videogaming is laying off a sizable chunk of westcoast staff.
According to one insider, Atari, publisher of many classic videogames of yore, is letting go of marketing staff from their Santa Monica and Beverly offices - centralizing operations out of the east coast locations.
To ad a bit of perspective to the layoffs...the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), an annual orgy of videogaming goodness, is cued up to run in May. One wonders why Atari would lay off staff going into the biggest show of the year.
Source: Secret Internal Contact
Categories: Atari, Video, Games, Computer, Console, PC, Layoff, Job, Employment, E3, Marketing, PR
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Westcoast Atari layoffs?
Looks like one of the icons in videogaming is laying off a sizable chunk of westcoast staff.
According to one insider, Atari, publisher of many classic videogames of yore, is letting go of marketing staff from their Santa Monica and Beverly offices - centralizing operations out of the east coast locations.
To ad a bit of perspective to the layoffs...the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), an annual orgy of videogaming goodness, is cued up to run in May. One wonders why Atari would lay off staff going into the biggest show of the year.
Source: Secret Internal Contact
Categories: Atari, Video, Games, Computer, Console, PC, Layoff, Job, Employment, E3, Marketing, PR
