{"id":1984,"date":"2010-02-02T19:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/02\/more-economic-game-industry-rumblings\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T19:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:25:36","slug":"more-economic-game-industry-rumblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/02\/more-economic-game-industry-rumblings\/","title":{"rendered":"More Economic Game Industry Rumblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/pc.ign.com\/articles\/106\/1065994p1.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/pc.ign.com\/articles\/106\/1065994p1.html', 'IGN');\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a>, Codemasters will be closing down its small U.S. presence, as ten marketing types are being laid off.  I hate to end the day on a low note, with back-to-back \u201cbad news\u201d articles, but our economy is seriously broken.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, call me Captain Obvious, but when you set aside the real world by using gaming as a fun hobby\/distraction, it pretty much sucks to see that even this great pastime of ours continues to be affected by our poor economic climate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to IGN, Codemasters will be closing down its small U.S. presence, as ten marketing types are being laid off. I hate to end the day on a low note, with back-to-back \u201cbad news\u201d articles, but our economy is seriously broken. Yes, call me Captain Obvious, but when you set aside the real world by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/02\/more-economic-game-industry-rumblings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Economic Game Industry Rumblings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}