Just one month after purchasing GamerDNA, the promising stat-driven video game community site, Crispy Gamer has laid off its entire editorial staff, on the authority of the company’s board of directors. We’re told Chris Heldman, the CEO, former head of media entertainment at Google and co-founder of Crispy Gamer, has resigned in protest. Last September, Crispy’s other co-founder, John Keefer, left to join the editorial staff of the influential GamePolitics blog.
The staff was told that they’ll be paid for the month, but their termination is effective immediately, leading us to believe the site is going on a similarly immediate hiatus. Editorial staff affected include former Joystiq writer Kyle Orland, along with Scott Jones, John Teti, Evan Narcisse, Ryan Kuo, Elise Vogel, and Editorial VP Anne Mischler.
Writing about his sale of the company to Crispy Gamer just last month, GamerDNA CEO Jon Radoff said that the site “has very ambitious plans to build a media company around the gaming market.” Today’s news would seem to indicate that however ambitious those plans are, they no longer include an editorial component. We’ve reached out to both Radoff and Heldman and will update this post when we learn more.
Crispy Gamer editorial staff laid off, CEO resigns in protest originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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