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Friday16th Feb 2024
News Disco Elysium Dev ZA/UM Reportedly Cancels Project And Is Planning Layoffs
"The fish starts rotting from the head"
ZA/UM, the developer behind the sublime CRPG Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, is reportingly planning to lay off 24 workers after cancelling its next major project, codenamed 'X7'. This comes via Sports Illustrated's GLHF, which reports that the 24 workers currently at risk make up roughly a quarter of the...
Thursday10th Nov 2022
News Disco Elysium Creators Clash With Studio Owners Over Dismissal
Both parties present conflicting statements
In a significant escalation of the legal battle between Disco Elysium's ousted creators and the development studio ZA/UM, both parties have presented conflicting statements regarding the dismissal of Robert Kurvitz, Aleksander Rostov, and Helen Hindpere. In an online message posted by Kurvitz and Rostov,...
Monday3rd Oct 2022
News Disco Elysium's Creative Talent Is No Longer At Developer ZA/UM
Developers apparently left 'involuntarily'
It's been confirmed that key creative figures behind the remarkable RPG Disco Elysium are no longer employed at developer ZA/UM. The news initially broke via Martin Luiga, a founding member and Secretary of the ZA/UM cultural association, who announced in a blog post that the cultural association would be...
Thursday16th Jun 2022
News Disco Elysium To Be Released In Japanese On Nintendo Switch Later This Year
With Spike Chunsoft as publisher
It's quite the task to localise a game. It's even more of a task to localise a narrative game. But a game like Disco Elysium, which contains around 1.2 million words, many of them complex political, psychological, and fictional concepts, it's probably near-impossible. Nevertheless, it has been done. Developer ZA/UM...
Monday7th Feb 2022
News Disco Elysium's 'Jamais Vu' Update Is Out Now On Switch
"Has Kim always been this hot?"
Yes. Kim Kitsuragi has always been this hot. But it wasn't us that asked the question: That's one posed by the update notes for Disco Elysium's "Jamais Vu" update, which is out on the Nintendo Switch today. The update includes: New secret achievements - time to hunt! Multiple fixes for crashes Gigantic load time...
Tuesday21st Dec 2021
News Disco Elysium: The Final Cut Gets Its Physical Release Date For Switch
There's also a very fancy $250 version
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is a critically acclaimed RPG that's won over a lot of gamers. It arrived on the Switch eShop in October in that 'Final Cut' guise, with enhancements and additional content that wrap up the game's development journey. It's not quite done though, with its physical editions now given...
Thursday14th Oct 2021
Nintendo Download 14th October (Europe)
Disco Elysium! Monster Crown! a!
The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch Retail eShop - New Releases: Disco Elysium - The Final Cut (ZA/UM,...
Thursday7th Oct 2021
Nintendo Download 7th October (North America)
Metroid Dread! Disco Elysium - The Final Cut! Tetris Effect: Connected!
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch eShop - Highlights:...
Thursday23rd Sep 2021
News Disco Elysium: The Final Cut Is Heading To Switch In October
With a retail version in early 2022
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut has been eagerly awaited on Switch since it was initially confirmed, and an age rating listing in late August indicated that it wasn't far away. Pleasingly, the most recent Nintendo Direct confirmed that the game is out soon on 12th October, with a physical retail version due in early...
Monday30th Aug 2021
News Disco Elysium: The Final Cut Moves Closer To Switch Release With Age Rating
Hopefully not long now
Confirmation of the expanded Disco Elysium: The Final Cut brought much delight to fans of the RPG, with its storyline and choice mechanics earning the original iteration plenty of plaudits. It's also been known for quite some time that the Switch is in line to get this version of the game, which has already graced PC and...
Thursday25th Mar 2021
News Dress Like A Character From Disco Elysium With This New ZA/UM Fashion Line
Please let us live vicariously through you
[Update 26/03/2021: The clothes are already all out of stock. Dang.] Did you play through Disco Elysium thinking, "damn, I wish I looked as good as these chaotic weirdos"? Us too! Studio ZA/UM, the chaotic weirdos behind the award-winning narrative role-playing game / political Dungeons-and-Dragons-like...
Friday19th Mar 2021
News ZA/UM Releases New Songs By British Sea Power For Disco Elysium's 'Final Cut'
Excellent news for fans of music that triggers an existential crisis
Disco Elysium, the political narrative/visual novel adventure/supernatural karaoke simulator/role-playing game that took the world by storm when it came to PC in 2019, is making its way to consoles this year as the new "Final Cut" version, which will add full voice-acting and new...
News Disco Elysium: The Final Cut Is Refused Classification In Australia
Recent refusal bans it from sale
Switch owners won't be receiving Disco Elysium: The Final Cut until this Summer, but there's already trouble ahead for Australian players. Launching on March 30th for PlayStation and Stadia owners, the Australian government has refused to classify it, which bans it from s
Wednesday17th Mar 2021
News Disco Elysium: The Final Cut's Lead Writer Hints At A Potential Sequel
"We’ve spent years designing the world and we’re not ready to leave yet"
Switch players are in for a treat with Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. Bringing us a murder mystery detective RPG, Disco Elysium pays tribute to classic isometric RPGs like Planescape: Torment, while providing a fresh take on the genre. Set inside the fictional city of...
Tuesday9th Feb 2021
News ZA/UM Talks About Disco Elysium's Big 'Final Cut' Update Ahead Of Its Summer Switch Release
In case 2020 wasn't quite enough politics for you
Disco Elysium, the intensely complex political-supernatural-murder-mystery-thriller-detective novel-RPG that's clearly quite hard to put in any one genre category, has been out on PC since 2019. It's due to hit PS4 and PS5 in March, and the Nintendo Switch some time this summer. For those who haven't...
Friday11th Dec 2020
News Disco Elysium: The Final Cut Aims For A Summer 2021 Release On Switch
Coming to other platforms in March
The award-winning RPG from developer ZA/UM has had its Switch release confirmed for next year in the form of updated version: Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. We've known since earlier this year that a Switch port was in the works, but ZA/UM has now confirmed a Summer 2021 release window in a PR release following the...
Friday16th Oct 2020
Random The Award-Winning RPG Disco Elysium Has Been Ported To Game Boy
"Well, the first part of it at least"
While you wait for the multi-award-winning RPG Disco Elysium to come to Nintendo Switch, why not play the Game Boy version instead? Disco Elysium fan Colin Brannan has "ported" the first part of this game to Nintendo's legendary portable unit. If you don't have all the necessary equipment to play it on this...
Tuesday7th Apr 2020
News The Multi-Award-Winning Disco Elysium Is Coming To Nintendo Switch
"It's going to happen soon"
ZA/UM’s RPG Disco Elysium has caused quite a stir on other formats, even going as far as to claim three BAFTAs and four Game Awards – and it has now been confirmed for release on Switch. The welcome news came during a chat with BBC 5live’s ‘Game On’ podcast, during which the game’s art director Aleksander...