Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

EXPLAINED: Za | Rare Historical Photos

ZA/UM Confirms Layoffs After 'Zero Parades' Fails to Achieve Commercial Success Despite Critical Acclaim

ZA/UM announces layoffs after "Zero Parades" earns critical praise but falls short commercially, adding another chapter to the studio's turbulent history.

Player One

Over 30 developers fired from Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM despite ZERO PARADES rave reviews

ZA/UM was always going to struggle to regain lost trust.

Destructoid

Zero Parades being an easier RPG than Disco Elysium makes perfect sense – and makes it more fun

Now Playing | I don't need Zero Parades to be difficult, I need it to let me savescum

GamesRadar

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

With no combat system, Zero Parades is an RPG all about skill checks and spycraft, and it's a more exciting adventure for it

Now Playing | Will you wear wigs?

GamesRadar

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies review

ZA/UM's espionage RPG doesn't quite sell its spy story.

PC Gamer

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies review: "Being built from Disco Elysium's bones is a blessing and a curse for this spy RPG"

GamesRadar

Even after ZA/UM's messy breakup, the writing team still has a cadre of sad communists—but you won't have to play Zero Parades as one if you don't want to

But I will, though. Just so you know.

PC Gamer

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Disco Elysium writers marvel at how a game made 'in a f**king squalid flat' in Estonia had such a huge impact, and welcomes successors like Esoteric Ebb: 'We make games, but we also like them'

Disco Elysium was one-of-a-kind when it came out in 2019, but that won't be the case for ZA/UM's upcoming Zero Parades.

PC Gamer

Steam Next Fest kicks off this month, and ZA/UM Studio's next game Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is getting a free demo to try out

ZA/UM Studio has announced that a free demo for Zero Parades: For Dead Spies will be available during Steam Next Fest this month.

TechRadar

'Pokémon Legends: Z-A' Comes Razor-Close To Greatness

'Pokémon Legends: Z-A' moves in a smart new direction with one of the most engrossing spinoffs to date, even if it can't fully escape the series' lingering flaws.

Inverse

'Pokémon Legends: Z-A' Has Secretly Become My Favorite Dress-Up Game

'Pokémon Legends: Z-A' shows some of the series' lingering problems, but it does manage to absolutely nail the vibes of simply chilling in Lumiose City.

Inverse

Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM unionizes in the UK: 'We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings'

The Workers' Alliance at ZA/UM was organized through the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain.

PC Gamer

We finally saw ZA/UM's Zero Parades in action and even though it's extremely Disco Elysium, the protagonist couldn't be more different

It still can't shake the Disco Elysium comparisons though.

PC Gamer

The people who brought you the $165 Disco Elysium trash bag now bring you an $800 The Alters tracksuit

For the next time you get stranded off-world.

PC Gamer

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

PC Gamer

I've finally seen gameplay from ZA/UM's follow-up to Disco Elyisum, and it looks a lot like Disco Elysium. It will have to be spectacular to win back a hostile fanbase

Project C4 will challenge its predecessor on its own turf—will it really be worth the wait?

PC Gamer

It's another day of Disco Elysium-related announcements trying to kneecap each other: Studio ZA/UM has put out a teaser for its first new game since 2019, and it's not Disco Elysium 2

Surely there are other ways of marketing videogames.

PC Gamer

ZA/UM gets away with $165 plastic bags because its execs know hypocritical moaners are the same 'ones ordering the expensive items' anyway, says former Disco Elysium writer

I'd write a strapline here, but the postman's arrived with my bag.

PC Gamer

A Forbes 30-under-30-er involved in at least 2 Disco Elysium successor studios has sued the lead dev at a third, blocking him from working on a new game

There will never be another "normal" Disco Elysium news story.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Inverse

5 Years Later, This Fascinating RPG Shattered One Studio and Inspired Four More

There's really nothing like 'Disco Elysium,' a fascinating political detective RPG that just passed its fifth anniversary.

PC Gamer

This is the Disco Elysium successor to get excited about: Multiple writers from the original announce a manifesto to create an RPG 'with complexity and ambition to rival our wretched and wonderful world'

Summer Eternal is an artist collective boasting two of the original Disco's five principle writers, as well as narrator and musician Lenval Brown and multiple devs from its canceled sequel.

Metal Hammer

"I got high on mushrooms with Brent Hinds from Mastodon." How Zeal & Ardor went from grotty squat-punks to one of the most innovative bands in extreme metal

Zeal & Ardor's new album Greif continues Basel's fine tradition of flashing their backsides at power and authority

PC Gamer

A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year⁠—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team: 'For a while it seemed like miracles were possible, and with them redemption'

It was supposed to be the "110% authentic, most hardcore Disco since Disco."

PC Gamer

Disco Elysium studio laying off nearly 25% of its staff⁠—including the final remaining writer from the original game's credits

Argo Tuulik featured prominently in People Make Games' documentary on ZA/UM.

GamesRadar

Developer of legendary CRPG thinks the team behind the beloved hit is gone forever, and that the company "will forever stay a one game studio"

"The individuals of ZA/UM have left the corporate body behind"

Zenger

‌Rescheduling Cannabis: Unleashing The Industry’s Potential

Z&A report warns of complexities and consequences, explores alternatives to unlock industry growth.

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.