February 3, 2019 Machinima's parent company announced that the former multi-channel network has closed, eliminating 81 remaining jobs.
Machinima took down more than a decade’s worth of video content from its YouTube channel in the wake of its sale to Fullscreen Media in January, stunning current and former content creators alike. Now the writing on the wall has been made official: Machinima has been closed by parent Otter Media, an AT&T-owned company. “Wow… they finally went ahead and deleted everything we’d ever done,” tweeted RickyFTW, who co-hosts the YouTube series Internet Today. Actress and writer Felicia Day said the Dragon Age: Redemption series she’d written, produced, and performed in are among those lost in the mass deletion. “I guess my Dragon Age web series is now gone with the Machinima video purge,” she tweeted. “Grab the DVDs while you can, not sure it will ever be online again. RIP” A Machinima representative confirmed to Polygon that the closure had involved layoffs, and that Machinima "has ceased its remaining operations." As an MCN, Machinima hosted content by popular YouTube creators like Gamerpoop and Super Best Friends Play, growing to more than 12 million subscribers since its launch on YouTube back in 2006.from PCGamesN http://bit.ly/2t031Fu
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