Remember that fighting game you don't actually remember? It's not doing good...

The project has been in development for about a decade and has been released on PC and consoles last month after some kind of beta testing.

But something went wrong. Riot ignored Steam and never targeted the broad genre fans, hoping and League of Legends community will sort it out. It didn't.

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The studio behind very nice The Demon Souls and Shadow of Collosus remakes is being shut down by PlayStation.

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They were doing what? 😑

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NACON has no more money to operate its property and trying to settle it with investors.

They are the company behind Cyanide (Styx), Daedalic (Deponia, Gollum, State of Mind), Spiders (GreedFall, Steelrising). In total there are over 25 companies, 1000+ employees, and over 100 locations.

Not a full Bankruptcy, but they are fairly close to it. And they still plan a new presentation on March 6 and hoping to freeze their obligations by up to 18 months.

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The original founder of Twitter and AI-fanatic Jack is shrinking his current company from 10000+ to just 6000 workers.

He says that:

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong

According to internal documents, his team now despise him for pushing use of AI under "productivity" promise, but their overall opinion "we would use it already if it would be even remotely productive".

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Since Nacon has no budget to burn, they moved the planned presentation two months forward. And promise to fix the budgeting issue.

They are the company behind Spiders, Daedalic, and dozens of other studios around the world. They unified over the years to be more resilient but it kinda didn't work out.

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Battlefield 6 team did a good job upon release but it's not catching up with content and bug fixes yet again.

EA is laying off employees to lower the financial pressure from the whole Battlefield franchise.

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Meme related

(By estimates, up to 20 million copies of Battlefield 6 could be already sold).

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Ballistic Moon is now officially closed. The studio behind the pointless Until Dawn Remaster has been an empty shell for a while now, but now it's completely gone.

The original game used to have a carefully placed fog and light flares. In the remaster they simply dropped the most basic 3D fog everywhere and called it a day (or a night, IDK)

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WB Games Montreal, the studio behind Gotham Knights and cancelled Wonder Woman game is laying off undisclosed number of people.

They were also a supportive studio in Kill the Justice League.

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