After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he’s received ‘countless’ hateful messages: ‘This can happen to you too when you sacrifice over 2,000 hours of your time to help the industry’ | Gaming

Amir Satvat, the recipient of the first “Game Changers” award at this year’s Game Awards, says he’s received “countless hateful messages” as well as “disturbing comments” following his acceptance of the award last week, including antisemetic remarks about his wife.

“I am continuing to do my best to tune this out but it is quite extreme,” Satvat said in a LinkedIn post.

During the event, Geoff Keighley admitted that he’s “struggled” to know how best to address the unprecedented rash of games industry layoffs we’ve seen over the past few years. It was the first time the host and producer directly addressed layoffs at the awards, and the solution he came up with was to honor Satvat, a figure well-known in…more

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