Quick summary
"It's devastating". It's another day of bleak news for the industry. Alx Preston, the founder of Hyper Light Drifter studio Heart Machine, has announced that the studio is facing closure after a key publisher "decided to no longer move forward" with an unannounced title, resulting in "nearly everyone" on the team…
What we know so far
Automatic note by LuaCat Games, built from what we know about the coverage (who reported it, how many sites, the story’s history) — not a translation or copy of the source.
This one spread fast: 3 sites published it, including Nintendo Life, PC Gamer, and Gematsu.
Bottom line: This story already had 1 chapter before this one — check “How the story developed” below. When 3 sites tell the same story, the odds of it being wrong are pretty slim.
- Section
- Games
- Published
- 09/17/2026 06:30
- Updated
- 09/17/2026 06:45
- Sources
- 3
- Relevance
- 61/100
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