UPDATED: Valve business director Jason Holtman leaves as Valve staff 'let go'.
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Valve have let go a number of staff on Tuesday, including their widely respected director of business Jason Holtman. Alongside Holtman, Gamasutra are reporting that as many as 25 staff have left the company in what are described as “group layoffs". The group also includes Jeri Ellsworth, who had been openly working on prototype hardware and controllers, and who tweeted earlier today that she’d “been fired."Valve have yet to comment on the staff changes, however a quick comparison of their current staff pages show with a cached version from January 20th shows that at least nine staff have been removed from the page since then. Speculation on Gamasutra suggests that ‘up to 25 staff have been let go.'
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