{"id":105913,"date":"2025-10-28T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105913\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:00:11","slug":"a-pair-of-multiversus-directors-are-launching-a-new-game-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105913\/","title":{"rendered":"A pair of MultiVersus directors are launching a new game studio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two directors from MultiVersus are striking out on their own, forming a new, independent game studio. The platform brawler’s production director, Justin Fischer, and technical director, Brock Feldman, have joined forces to launch a new endeavor called Airlock Games<\/a>. Rather than continuing to follow the AAA route, the first project from Airlock is a sci-fi sim management horror game called What the Stars Forgot. The team plans to run a Kickstarter to generate backing for the game ahead of a planned early access launch in December.<\/p>\n

Player First Games, the studio behind MultiVersus, was acquired<\/a> by WB Games last summer, but despite a promising early showing, the game was shuttered<\/a> in May at the close of its fifth season. But the choice for devs to bounce back with something new and smaller is becoming a familiar refrain<\/a> in the games industry after several years of layoffs and cancelations. After so many highly anticipated projects have gotten the axe as a money-saving, cost-cutting decision by large outfits, it makes sense that devs might want to have more control over their own destinies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two directors from MultiVersus are striking out on their own, forming a new, independent game studio. The platform…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[76517,76516,76513,76512,76515,76511,111,139,69,76514,145,66132],"class_list":["post-105913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-airlock","tag-brock-feldman","tag-horror-game","tag-independent-game-studio","tag-justin-fischer","tag-multiversus","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-production-director","tag-technology","tag-wb-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}