By far the biggest, most disheartening industry news of the week was WB’s sudden closure of three studios, including Monolith, creators of classics like Blood, F.E.A.R.
It has been said countless times and by people far more eloquent than me, but fuck Warner Bros. Fuck ‘em! Fuck both the company generally and CEO David Zaslav specifically
If there's been one depressing theme to a lot of popular culture news in 2023--beyond bad stuff like AI and labour conditions--it's been the increasingly dystopian