I don't even know where to start. The state of the video game industry is in its death throes right now due to everything happening all at once. I remember about a year and a half ago I was talking to some friends of mine about how I believed we were heading for a video game crash, and I was utterly mocked for even bringing up the idea. I would like to say that I tracked down those friends and gave them the biggest “I told you so” speech of my life, but I'm not exactly thrilled about being right about this particular thing. If Microsoft Was a Centipede It Would Have 3 Feet Left The word going around over the last few weeks post‑SGF was that Microsoft was going to be committing a round of layoffs and studio closures that would make EA pause. Five major studios are rumoured to be completely closed on top of God knows how many layoffs from the many other studios under the Microsoft umbrella. Industry veterans are claiming this is going to be the single largest loss of video game j...