Dr Disrespect’s Midnight Society is shutting down and its FPS is canceled

Guy ‘Dr. Disrespect’ Beahm’s Midnight Society has announced it’s shutting down, and its debut shooter Deadrop is canceled, 6 months after its split from the streamer.

In an announcement published on its social media channels, the studio – which was co-founded by Beahm, Call of Duty veteran Robert Bowling, and Halo designer Quinn Delhoyo – called for studios to help its remaining employees find new work.

“We express our sincere gratitude to each and every one of our community members and [are] deeply sorry we were unable to reach our ultimate goal,” the statement reads.

Midnight Society had been working on its debut game Deadrop, a free-to-play first-person “vertical extraction shooter set in a dark and violent future where the 80s never ended”, for the past three years.

The game had planned to incorporate NFTS, and had released multiple playable demos to community members, which it called ‘snapshots’.

The studio split from Dr. Disrespect last summer, following allegations that he sent sexually explicit messages to a minor. Several months later, it announced a “significant” number of layoffs, which it said was due to “multiple unexpected challenges”.

Over one in 10 developers questioned in a recent industry survey said they were laid off over the past year. In GDC’s annual State of the Game Industry survey, which asked over 3,000 game developers across indie and AAA studios questions about their work, 11% of respondents reported being laid off in the past 12 months, which was up from 7% in last year’s survey.