And the internal memo this time can be boiled down to "We have the success we do because of layoffs, so we're doing it again!"

Too much corporate money is in the medium. It isn't just Xbox, and games aren't the only medium. Art is battered in the interest of a product; in the name of "value".

At this rate, they'll join the 27 club.

I fell in love with games as the emerging art form for our lives. But the games industry—which I recognize is what enables so many to contribute to the medium—is so focused on feeding the corporate beast that it grinds those contributors to dust.

Have you considered the possibility the transaction is real and you are not, nor have ever been Jeff Gerstmann?

You will soon, buddy. You will soon.

No, it's not.