Valve, the company that have brought us such games as the Left 4 Dead and Portal series, have fired about 25 members of their staff in the past few days. The news broke to the world by a tweet last week from Valve engineer Jeri Ellsworth on 13/02/19 saying:
A statement by Valve co-founder Gabe Newell had this to say about the matter to Engadget:
"No, we aren't cancelling any projects. No, we aren't changing any priorities or projects we've been discussing. No, this isn't about Steam or Linus or hardware or [insert game name here]. We're not going to discuss why anyone in particular is or isn't working here."