3 weeks ago
ZA/UM Studio, nan institution down Disco Elysium, conscionable dropped a trailer for its upcoming RPG Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. This is nan first existent footage we are getting of nan game, though we sewage a mysterious teaser past year erstwhile it was still being called Project C4.
This is simply a highly stylized sci-fi RPG successful nan vein of Disco Elysium, but pinch a unsocial scrapbook-esque ocular style. It's being called a "psychedelic espionage RPG," and nan sanction suggests a dense accent connected spycraft. It really looks benignant of neat.
This is thing of a protector driblet announcement, arsenic Zero Parades will beryllium disposable for PC connected May 21. That's successful conscionable 2 weeks. It's coming to PS5, but not until later this year. The crippled has been shrouded successful secrecy, ever since ZA/UM Studio lost nan halfway squad that made Disco Elysium.
This includes creator Robert Kurvitz, creation head Aleksander Rostov and writer Helen Hindpere. All 3 were fired by nan company's caller executive suite successful 2022, aft nan trio was accused of misconduct and attempted intelligence spot theft. It's worthy noting that Kurvitz wrote nan caller that Disco Elysium is based on.
Lawsuits were filed and Kurvitz and Rostov set up their ain company. The brace refuted nan allegations of IP theft and wrote successful an unfastened missive that they were fired owed to an investigation surrounding nan takeover of ZA/UM by Estonian businessmen Ilmar Kompus and Tõnis Haavel. These 2 were antecedently convicted of investment fraud and person been accused of creating a dispute activity situation for women.
"I cognize astatine slightest 5 women who've near aliases been made to time off nan workplace since Disco's launch, naming Tõnis Haavel arsenic a awesome factor. There are zero women successful imaginative activity and very fewer women successful activity positions successful general," a erstwhile writer for Disco Elsyium told PC Gamer.
Other erstwhile ZA/UM labor formed a institution called Longdue that's making a caller crippled called Hopetown that acts arsenic a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium. It's been a while since we've gotten an update connected that one. In immoderate event, we only person 2 weeks to spot if ZA/UM still has immoderate juice aft each of nan aforementioned drama. Zero Parades: For Dead Spies will beryllium disposable to download from Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG for $40.
