EXPLAINED: Fntastic | Vintage Vibes

Is Concord the biggest live service failure of all time? Here's how it stacks up next to other major flops

The live service graveyard got another headstone this week, and it's starting to feel awfully big.

PC Gamer · Oct 30, 2024

The Day Before studio is up to its old tricks, asking people to design maps for free in a contest whose lucky winner will get their work in a game, a free copy, and no money whatsoever

What an offer.

PC Gamer · Oct 29, 2024

The Day Before developer cancels second Kickstarter after it whimpers out with $2,200 of funding, immediately goes all-in on a third game in the same announcement

Third time's the charm?

PC Gamer · Oct 23, 2024

The Day Before was an even bigger disaster than you thought: devs reportedly made to pay fines for bad work, learned it was an MMO from the trailers, and no one's sure where the bosses are

Less than Fntastic.

PC Gamer · Feb 1, 2024

The Day Before developer claims a ‘hate campaign’ towards the game ‘inflicted significant damage’

The Day Before developer Fntastic has released a new statement addressing what it called "misinformation."

TechRadar · Jan 24, 2024

The Day Before studio asks whether you're going to believe it or your own lying eyes as it attributes the game's catastrophic performance to a 'hate campaign' by 'bloggers'

Fntastic shut its doors in December, but it's still making statements.

PC Gamer · Jan 24, 2024

The Day Before developer threatens its return, blaming "the hate campaign" for the failure of its ill-fated 'survival MMO'

Fntastic wants you to keep in touch

GamesRadar · Jan 24, 2024

In the same week that their catastrophic MMO's servers shut down, The Day Before CEOs are reportedly starting work on a new game

Several sources claim the Gotovtstev brothers are not done developing games

GamesRadar · Jan 22, 2024

All the big games that shut down in 2023

Several live service and online games had to close their doors this year.

PC Gamer · Dec 29, 2023

Disastrous survival shooter The Day Before to be extracted from existence, shutting down its servers just one month after launch

Walking dead.

PC Gamer · Dec 22, 2023