Daybreak Layoffs Amid Questions About Russian Oligarch Ties

A post on Massively Overpowered explores the fascinating situation surrounding developer and publisher Daybreak Games, which was formerly Sony Online Entertainment before being sold off. They note that the company that bought SOE back in 2015 was identified as Columbus Nova, as reported here at the time. Columbus Nova is apparently owned by Viktor Vekselberg, one of the Russian oligarchs whose assets were frozen by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for destabilizing activities, including possible interference in U.S. elections. Daybreak issued a statement to the site saying that this is fake news, claiming Columbus Nova is not actually their owner, asking us to believe their own press releases saying this was the case were in error. They claim the actual purchaser was Jason Epstein, a former senior managing partner of Columbus Nova. This seems like a stretch, and MassiveOP notes some Wikipedia shenanigans to try and scrub the company's history. The latest twist comes as VG247 reports layoffs at Daybreak, which the company has confirmed, calling them "workforce realigning." Workforces get realigned in this business all the time, but the layoffs also make sense in light of the theory that Daybreak's real owner has had his U.S. assets frozen. It bears noting that Columbus Nova was also named as the purchaser of Rock Band developer Harmonix back in 2010.
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jdreyer wrote on Apr 27, 2018, 18:00:
Timmeh wrote on Apr 27, 2018, 14:22:

Leftists are totally Ok with the likes of George Soros pumping millions and millions into influencing elections and policy in the USA and the rest of the world but if they can lie cheat and steal to pin some made up bullshit on the Russians its the end of the world.

Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Huntsman, etc. are billionaires that pour money into conservative PACs at twice the rate of liberal billionaires like Soros. Conservatives have the rich man money edge.

Our government is overrun with commie leftist bastards who will do anything to destroy america as we know it.
All branches of the federal government are currently controlled by the Republicans. In addition, Republicans control 33 state governorships and 26 state legislatures compared to 15 governorships and 6 state legislatures for Dems. So you're saying Republicans are Commies leftist bastards?

by the way.... The clinton foundation took 145 million from Russian businessmen, banks and company to sell out america. Thats just one example of hundreds of pay to play cases that are ignored by the leftist SCUM in the deep state of our government.
You do realize the Clinton foundation gets billions of dollars a year, and $145M is a piddly amount right? Also, you realize that the Clintons themselves don't get this money, their charitable foundation does, right? Unlike Trump, who got money directly from the Russians. You remember the Russians, right? The original Communists and our arch enemy: you remember, right?

If you leftists were actually decent people you would care about ALL of this.
You do realize that the Dems are the party trying to improve people's lives, right: healthcare, gun control, consumer and financial protection, good jobs, etc. All these things improve under Dem administrations and decline under Republican ones.

Gun control is not improvining peoples lives, it's taking away rights. Every American has and can get healthcare, Why we worry about the 10% too lazy or stupid to get health insurance is beyond me.

Good think we have trump who's given us the best economy in decades, GPD growth has increased since the last two years of Obama.
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