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Online games news Tedious Retro Gamer, 04-03-2026
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To nobody’s surprise Highguard shuts down after weeks of existence.
Yet another multiplayer shooter, Highguard, planned for at least a year of further content development (if you can take developer’s word for it), shuts down completely after just about 6 weeks since the premiere. So... it is about one year spent on development for each week of the game existence.
What was Highguard? It does not really matter any more, on March 12th it will be gone anyway. Let’s just say it was met with lukewarm reactions from the users and reviewers, the playerbase dwindled within literally days (drop of about 90% in the first week is a remarkable achievement).
According to the developer, over 2 million people have tried the game, but on the other hand the same developer was quoted saying that "(...) whether it gets a thousand people or a hundred million people, it doesn’t matter (...)", so... you need to take his words with a barrel of salt.
On the other hand, according to some sources, Chinese company Tencent was secretly financing the project for past two years (which the developer forgot to mention). This means that Tencent must have lost some decent money on the whole thing, so it’s not all bad news.
04-03-2026
Epic fired about 1000 employees
Epic Games, the company behind a once successful game engine, behind inexplicably popular microtransactions game and behind barely remembered online games store, just fired around a quarter of its employees.
Hello darkness, my old friend
One of my favourite quotes from Mystery Science Theater 3000 is "he came, he changed nobody’s life and then he left", which pretty much describes what happened to Cyberpunk 2077. Again.
Never mind, the revolution is off!
Just two months ago, CEO of Embracer Group, Lars Wingefors said in an interview (after selling / closing quite a few studios) that his company will now concentrate on smaller and better games. Guess what! Of course, he changed his mind already. His new plan is even better!
The curious case of Introversion Software
You might have never heard of Introversion Software, although you might have heard about their flagship title, Prison Architect, which was a big success on Steam between 2015 and 2019. So, how they ended up as curious case? Well, that is a good question.
Stalker 2 postponed! Shock! Horror!
To nobody’s surprise GSC Game World has just postponed (again) premiere of Stalker 2. For about 7 months...
Wake up, Charlie, we have careers to burn!
While MrBeast keeps digging himself deeper into scandal surrounding his dubious practices (no, not manipulating his underage audience, but for organizing lotteries which broke the law), there is one voice visibly missing from this whole situation.
