The recession's hit video game journalism pretty hard and it seems even high-profile outlets aren't safe. G4 has revealed that its gaming shows X-Play and Attack of the Show will both be trimmed back a bit.

"G4 is returning AOTS and X-Play to their former production schedules and, starting March 2nd, AOTS will air 4 originals per week and X-Play 3 originals per week. While the company does not comment on personnel matters, we can confirm that producing fewer episodes has resulted in a decrease in staff," read a statement from G4 sent to Kotaku.

The statement goes on to say this: "Savings resulting from this move will go directly towards producing more original programming in 2009. This is not a budget cut. G4 remains dedicated to these core franchises." Well, it might not be an cut of G4's total operating budget as a channel, but if you're producing less episodes of a show and paying less staff members...yeah, that's kind of a budget cut, guys. Wonder what this new original programming will be?