Former author IGN Mitch Dyer, who is currently working on Star Wars: Squadrons, told that in 2014 he was against his will had to add gossip to news about the departure of Amy Hennig from Naughty dog.
According to Dyer, the founders of the publication Steve Butts and Tal Blevins often harassed and intimidated employees for various reasons, and periodically directly influenced the work. Other former media workers spoke about this today.
For Dyer, the apogee of absurdity was the situation when the founders wanted to add gossip to his news about the departure of Amy Hennig from Naughty Dog that new eminent rock stars of the company Neil Drackmann and Bruce Streyli were forced out of the studio by authors The last of us.
Moreover, the information did not have a reliable source, and Dyer himself tried to abandon the authorship of the publication – the leadership, however, did not allow this to maintain its own relations with Sony.
After this news, Drackmann and Streyli began to actively accuse Hennig of leaving.
I want to publicly apologize to Neil Drackmann and Bruce Streley, who were caught in the crossfire of the toxic leadership of IGN. I am responsible for the anger, disgust and disappointment that you then encountered. I will never forgive myself for bending under the manipulations of these monsters.
Drackmann quickly enough replied that now he did not hold a grudge against the former journalist, although he did not deny that he had been angry about this for a long time.
I appreciate you telling the truth. Please know that I do not hold evil and wish you all the best. I’m sorry that you went through this.
When Sony denied the information about “crowding out” Hennig and condemned the publication of such gossip, both founders, as Dyers recalls, were simply silent. They did not stand up for the author.
Duplication Cancellation News The last guardian in the same 2014, it was also the work of Butts and Blevins, who published material bypassing the site’s news service.
When we began to find out the circumstances of the incident regarding the publication of this unreasonable nonsense without consulting the site’s news service, we were informed that we “should have been chasing this news feed”.
Mitch Dyer left IGN in 2016 and joined Electronic Arts, where he worked on Star Wars: Battlefront II. He is currently working on Star Wars: Squadrons, which will be released on October 2 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
Steve Butts and Tal Blevins also no longer work for IGN.
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