It's game company layoff month.  We recently reported on major lay-offs at Wizards of the Coast (see 'WotC Lays Off 60').  Two other game companies have also reduced staff recently.  Interactive Imagination has gone through a 'restructuring,' and, living up to its name, Cheapass Games has laid off its sales and marketing staff (the sales person and the marketing person) and brought inside its formerly freelance demo and convention person.  

Cheapass took a business-like approach to its restructuring announcement, which said in part, 'Cheapass Games is pleased to announce that as part of its plan to death-spiral into obscurity, it has eliminated two high-ranking personnel and replaced them with a part-time convention manager and a nine-inch cardboard monkey named Prince....Game submissions can now be sent to Prince,... who will summarily reject everything that hits his desk.'