Liquid Swords Files for Bankruptcy, Saros Update, AI Demo Fears
Liquid Swords has filed for bankruptcy after Samson’s stronger console performance failed to keep the studio open . Digital Sun and other indie developers are pulling back public demos over AI-cloning concerns, while Housemarque’s free Saros update adds New Game+ and Boss Rush
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Liquid Swords Files for Bankruptcy After Samson’s Console Release
Liquid Swords, the Swedish studio behind Samson: A Tyndalston Story, has filed for bankruptcy, with staff reportedly unpaid for two months . Founder Christofer Sundberg said Samson performed much better on consoles than on its original PC release, but the results were still not enough to save the studio
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Samson launched on PC in April and reached PS5 on September 21, about a month before the studio’s bankruptcy filing .
Indie Developers Restrict ReVamp and Drunken Goddess Reflux Demos Over AI Cloning
Digital Sun delayed the public Steam playtest for ReVamp, limiting testing to its Discord community over concerns the game could be reverse-engineered, cloned and published before its launch . Alliance Arts and Who You also canceled the public demo for Drunken Goddess Reflux, citing fears that AI could help copycats produce similar games before release
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The concerns surface as Steam Next Fest 2026 opens with more than twice as many demos as last year, alongside discussion of AI-generated submissions, plagiarism and discoverability .
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Campaign Earns Positive Early Steam Feedback
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s campaign is drawing positive early feedback from Steam players, putting it among the series’ most well-received recent releases on the platform . The campaign’s credits also honor late Call of Duty co-creator Vince Zampella, who worked on the series through 2009 before leading Battlefield
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Activision says next year’s Call of Duty will begin a new sub-series rather than continue one of the franchise’s existing lines .
Saros Gets Free Zenith Update With New Game+ and Boss Rush
Housemarque released the free Zenith update for Saros on PS5 on October 19; the version 2.0 update is 3.5GB . It adds New Game+, Boss Rush, auto-fire and Golden Crown power-ups
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The update aims to improve replayability for players who have finished the campaign and make the game more accessible to newcomers .
Funcom Prepares Layoffs After Dune: Awakening Console Release
Funcom, the Norwegian developer of Dune: Awakening and Conan Exiles, is restructuring and preparing layoffs following Dune: Awakening’s console release . The company made a similar move last year, several months after the game’s PC launch
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