Controversial Disco Elysium studio plans 32 layoffs after latest RPG's underwhelming "commercial performance": "Our artistic standards remain unchanged" "We will persist" GamesRadar · Jul 17
A Disco Elysium writer once told Josh Sawyer that 'we can do better than this now,' and Sawyer agrees "We just keep inspiring each other. It's not an animosity thing. It's just, do the best you can, [and] get inspired by other people." PC Gamer · Jun 29
Global Markets: Japan's Nikkei pulls back from record high on AI selloff Japan's Nikkei index experienced its biggest drop in three weeks on Thursday. This pullback followed a record high. Investors sold AI-related stocks after Broadcom's disappointing revenue. Renewed Middle East conflict also impacted market sentiment. SoftBank Group saw a significant decline. Despite the broader market fall, Tokyo Electron and Disco shares… The Economic Times · Jun 4
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies review – The game that came in from the cold Zero Parades: For Dead Spies makes great strides to be its own game, and find its own shine in the shadow of greatness. Destructoid · May 18
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is a masterful Disco Elysium successor Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is an excellent Disco Elysium successor that still establishes its own identity. TechRadar · May 18
Zero Parades, the spy game from Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM, is coming in May The Steam Next Fest demo is still up too—ZA/UM says it'll be available to play until April 13. PC Gamer · Mar 31
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 · Mar 24
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 · Mar 13
Two laugh-out-loud moments in Zero Parades gave me hope that the Disco Elysium successor will still deliver flashes of brilliance Two locked doors, two surprisingly funny and nuanced dialogue puzzles. PC Gamer · Mar 13
ZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits' Harrier Who Bois? PC Gamer · Mar 12
The future of RPGs is isometric Opinion | Isometric RPGs were once considered a thing of the past, but recent success stories have proved that players still have an appetite for the subgenre GamesRadar · Mar 10
It's only March, but I'm calling it: Esoteric Ebb is 2026's best RPG and the first worthy successor to Disco Elysium It's more than D&D Disco Elysium, but it's also absolutely D&D Disco Elysium. PC Gamer · Mar 3
The upcoming Disco Elysium for D&D nerds just dropped a 90-minute supercut of its weirdly beautiful soundtrack Esoteric beats to role/play to. PC Gamer · Feb 23
The new game from Disco Elysium's studio feels like the first Christmas after your parents' divorce It ain't never gonna be what it was. PC Gamer · Feb 19
PC Gamer · Feb 4 Why does isometric perspective suit Disco Elysium? 'You can design the entire game as if it was a painting' ZA/UM's original art director breaks it down.
Inverse · Dec 29, 2025 The Decade's Finest RPG Is Now A Fashion House Serving Looks What drew me to Disco Elysium from the start was the fashion, when I saw someone wearing that very jacket. That was also the start of studio ZA/UM’s fashion-forward Atelier, headed by Kristiina Ago.
Android Central · Dec 12, 2025 Google's 'Disco' experiment is an AI browser that turns your tabs into mini apps Google announced its AI experiment, Disco, which features custom apps based on your tabs called "GenTabs."
PC Gamer · Sep 30, 2025 Summer Eternal, one of the most exciting studios to come out of the Disco Elysium fallout, will announce its first game exclusively through 'the analog medium' of a vinyl record and a book of art, essays, and dev diaries It looks sick.
GamesRadar · Aug 21, 2025 I'm relieved to see the Disco Elysium successor is just as strange and dark – I've had my fill of fantasy RPGs for the year Opinion | There's more to RPGs than high fantasy – who knew?
PC Gamer · Jun 30, 2025 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 · Jun 24, 2025 Türkiye's answer to Disco Elysium just broke cover, featuring more lawyers, fewer cops, an indeterminate amount of communism and twin fistfuls of guilt and regret Pera Coda swaps Revachol for Istanbul, but don't worry: there's still plenty of anguish.
PC Gamer · May 26, 2025 The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce Tabletop roleplaying drives videogame RPGs to be better.
International Business Times · May 20, 2025 The Power of Play: How Pickleball, Panels and Real Conversation Are Fueling 7-Figure Deals Founder-led events have rapidly emerged as perhaps the most underrated growth hack in today's business landscape.
PC Gamer · May 9, 2025 The voice of Disco Elysium's Ancient Reptilian Brain performed the game's famous karaoke scene live and in costume The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns.
GamesRadar · Apr 23, 2025 Designer of Disco Elysium spiritual successor TTRPG reveals "key design tenet" mirrored in jazz and progressive metal: "Every misstep, every dead end [makes] the eventual release more beautiful" Interview with the designer of Disco Elysium's free tabletop RPG spiritual successor