I can't stress enough the importance of getting on TeamSpeak if you are looking to join the pack. The "R" icon beside peoples nicknames indicate that they are a recruiter and can get you going on the right path.
Folks are overlooking Noun's comments. If it were mass studio layoffs Relic/Sega would have put out a public notification. As this has not happened, it would be safe to assume that there has been some select layoffs for whatever reasons. We can speculate on those reasons but Relic would not be in a position to state them for privacy reasons. The best we can do as a community is wish those ex-Relic employees our best. I'm confident that Brad will land on his feet as Vancouver has a significant number of gaming studios.
This thread should be locked out of respect for those that lost their jobs. For realz.
(PS: My t-shirt got destroyed in the wash)
(PPS: We all have the right to be pissed off about the state of the game and the recent patch shenanigans that played out. Singling out the employees who choose to make themselves known on stream really isn't the correct way to go about it.)
Cuddles should hop on a Relic stream sometime and have a proper introduction. He/she? has been such a good contributor to the community it would be nice to have a face to the name.