Directive 8020 News

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Supermassive, developer of Until Dawn and Little Nightmares, is set to lay off another 36 employees before the release of Directive 8020, which is now being delayed to 2026. While the game itself looks interesting, trading the Wendigo for Ridley-esque alien horrors, there'll be around three dozen staff not making it to launch day...
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Supermassive Games, best known for developing the likes of Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology, have announced they've begun the consultation process for a round of redundancies that'll affect "up to 36" staff. As part of this, sci-fi horror game Directive 8020 has had its release delayed to early next year.

Meanwhile, Supermassive have confirmed that the development of puzzler Little Nightmares 3 hasn't been affected by these job cuts, with that game still being on track to come out October 10th.

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At this year’s Summer Game Fest, CGM finally got hands-on with Supermassive’s next chapter in The Dark Pictures Anthology, Directive 8020, and after spending time with it, this might be the game where the series truly comes into its own after a stumble with The Devil In Me.

First teased at the end of The Devil In Me way back in 2022, Directive 8020 has quietly brewed for three years, and that extra time in the oven feels like it’s paying off. Simply put: this is the most polished, ambitious, and genuinely unsettling entry in the anthology so far. Whether it can keep that momentum when the full game drops on October 2, 2025, remains to be seen, but so far, the signs are promising.

The section we played focused on two sides of Directive 8020’s The Dark Pictures coin. First was a stealth-heavy segment that surprised me in the best way. The tension of creeping through a derelict ship, trying to avoid a shape-shifting alien mimic, felt tight and focused, like... Read more