Fallout co-creator tells new devs terrified of layoffs they're "wrong" to expect making games to be a "stable job": "Art itself is inherently unstable"

Former Fallout lead Tim Cain has no need for sugar, so you'll have to gulp down his words as they are: the video game industry that's currently being splintered by mass layoffs and widespread threats from generative AI has not and will never be "stable." Cain repeats this point until it hurts your ears in a new YouTube video in which he discusses the volatile state of the gaming industry right now. "Seriously," Cain says, "if you're somebody who got in the game industry [...] in the last 5 or 10 years, and you thought it was going to be a stable job that would see you through for 30 or 40 years, you assumed incorrectly. You're wrong." Latest Videos FromGamesRadar+ The Fallout co-creator was there for the US video game crash of 1983, which evaporated "100% of American game developer console jobs," he says. "It's a new day at Blizzard": Union wins historic contract protecting 1,900 World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, and more workers as Microsoft plans another 1,600 layoffs.