"This non-profit will be the 'voice of the gamers'" - Former Disco Elysium devs break new ground with player- and developer-owned studio structure

ZA/UM, the controversial studio behind Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, has confirmed that its next CRPG will launch on Switch 2 on 3rd November 2026. Zero Parades: Director's Cut is the studio's second outing and was released on PC in May of this year. The Director's Cut, which launched as a free update for owners on PC earlier this month, features several key improvements, including re-recorded English voiceover and a revamped inventory system.

Earlier this month, the former Disco Elysium developers of worker co-operative studio Summer Eternal sent me a 500-page anthology describing their new game Red Rooster. It's a 3D, real-time, third-person RPG you could broadly style as a spiritual Disco successor, working in the tradition of Planescape: Torment and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, but which also owes much inspiration to Baldur's Gate 3 and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. It takes place in a magic realist, "our-world-adjacent", mightily flammable and divided river city called Arta-Tantor, created with Unreal Engine and housing a "physics-powered sandbox of objects you can individually move, manipulate – and burn. " Here, you will live out the story of Redrick Roost, a convict serving a life sentence after accidentally rendering thousands of people catatonic by means of an "auto-meditation" headset. Much like Disco's Harry, Redrick has a whole world of characters in his head – a hallucinatory vacuum shop or "chicken coop" full of alternate selves or "roosters", who vie for dominance as the game goes on, affecting your dialogue options and abilities.

Back in 2024, we heard about the formation of Summer Eternal: a new studio composed of Disco Elysium writer and world-builder, Argo Tuulik, and other veteran ZA/UM staff such as Dora Klindžić, Anastasia Ivanova, and Michael Oswell. Aleksandar Gavrilović, secretary of the Croatian Game Development Alliance, and Lenval Brown, Disco Elysium's narrator, are also part of the crew. Since then, we've heard nothing from the new collective, but earlier this month, the studio got in contact with me to gauge interest in the Summer Eternal Anthology, a 500-page physical book that's part-treatise on the cultural and labour impact of the video game industry, and part-development journal for its newly-announced "incendiary RPG", Red Rooster.

Star Wars Galactic Racer is going to get more content and developers Fuse Games will be making sure the community’s requests are a priority. In a new interview with The Games Business, Fuse Games co-founder and CEO Matt Webster was asked a bunch of questions and he revealed some very interesting insights into the game’s development. Additionally, he shared the team’s thinking towards future content and updates for the game.

Big Walk, House House’s cooperative puzzler that relies heavily on proximity chat and letting players just kinda wander around an island and figure it all out without much guidance, is one of the best games of the year. However, it skipped Xbox when it launched in August, and while that isn’t that uncommon these days, anyone who plays games primarily on Microsoft’s system is probably wondering if the game will ever come to Xbox Series X/S. House House has now put out a statement about why it chose to skip over the system, and has said flatly it is due to the ongoing BDS boycott protesting Microsoft’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.  The statement, which was posted on the company’s social media channels and the official Big Walk website, includes resources for those who are unaware of the BDS movement to read or watch, including the protest’s own website outlining how Microsoft tech has allegedly been used by Israeli military in surveillance of the Palestinian people, and its goals in urging people to boycott the company’s products, including Xbox.

You best start believing in ghost stories, Mr. Wyatt; you might be in one Adam Scott's horror-filled Ireland vacation is now streaming on Hulu