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DrDisrespect studio Midnight Society announces closure four months after "significant" layoffs


Midnight Society, the studio co-founded by controversial streamer Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm, is shutting its doors, fou…

Midnight Society, the studio co-founded by controversial streamer Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm, is shutting its doors, four months after making "significant" layoffs. Midnight Society was founded by Beahm and former Call of Duty community manager Robert Bowling in 2021, and the studio announced its first title- free-to-play vertical extraction shooter Deaddrop - the following year. Development on Deadrop has continued since then, but 2024 proved challenging for the studio amid Beahm's admission he exchanged "messages with an individual minor back in 2017" that "leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate".

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