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Welcome one and all to BigFriendly.Guide (or BigFriendlyGuide.c om, if you’re nasty). This is the new home for Jeffrey Parkin and myself, Ryan Gilliam. For the last 10 years or so, you’ve been able to find Jeff and my bylines all over a website called Polygon. We don’t work at that website anymore, due to circumstances beyond our control — namely Vox Media selling it and laying almost all of us off in the process. While we worked for Vox, Jeff and I worked on a lot of guide projects together and discovered we had a mutual love in the world of games: helping others enjoy them. So when we found ourselves unemployed, it didn’t take us long to come together and decide it was time for us to make something of our own. And thus, BigFriendly.Guide was born.

The thesis: We’re a completely employee-owned website — me and Jeff, we’re the employees and we own the joint — dedicated not to serving Google the kinds of guides it’s looking for, but serving you, our readers, community members, and, hopefully, subscribers.

This is a timely addition to the recent discussion on this comm

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The news came as a shock to many Cliffhanger employees, according to people familiar with this week’s events. Cliffhanger was actively hiring staff, and Black Panther had recently passed what EA calls a “gate” — a development milestone where executives review a game’s progress and decide whether to continue production. The team had momentum, and the project was coalescing, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing nonpublic information.

Others familiar with the project told me that EA executives were frustrated that the game had not yet left the pre-production phase after nearly four years in development. 

As EA assessed its portfolio earlier this year, it eliminated some of the projects that had been in development for a long time but had made the least amount of progress, including incubation projects at Respawn and this Black Panther game. A representative for EA declined to comment on the cancellation.

One reason for the slow progress on Black Panther was that the studio had only just begun scaling up. Many of the workers laid off this week were hired less than a year ago, including some who only joined in the last few weeks and months, said the people familiar.