🗝️Bosskey Newsletter 60 - 100 Subs, Last of Us Online 80% done Cancelled Pakour Game Tachyon Flow, Disney to Buy Epic?
# 🗝️ Bosskey Newsletter #3 Things: 1 🎮 Game news, 1 🔎 Interesting Find, 1 📱Social Post. Written by an Indie Game Dev
Hi There Gamers and Devs,
Thank you Readers on Substack Gaming, have crossed 100 💯 subscribers to this newsletter as I was writing in this post. I guess the substack network and gaming fans are slowly finding this blog.
I will like to thank these subscribers for interacting with this substack blog.
Alex Stasenko, Maurice Klimek, Alex Antra, Niki , Con The Notioneer (For giving me the first email sub)
Drumroll the 100th subscriber is Captain Glizzy writing on Game Design and Philosphy, please go give his substack a Sub!
Onwards with 3 Things this week in gaming!
🎮 Game News - Naugthy Dog Cancelled Live service Last of Us
🎮 Game News – KCD2 Director Daniel Vavra defends DLSS 5
📱 Social Post – Pakour Game Tachyon Flow
🔎 Interesting Finds – Disney to buy Epic Games?
Lets Go!
🎮Game News
Naughty Dog Live Service Last of Us cancelled 80% done
It sounds good on paper a Live Service multiplayer game set in the Last of Us
They probably dodged a bullet remember concord? I also feel a lot of these single player studios at playstation were not setup for multiplayer.
There is a lengthy interview with the Multiplayer Last of Us Director Vinit Agarwal on the game who was doing it for 7 years. Which is a lot of time sink into a career and not see anything ship. Maybe it was the best choice.
Vinit Agarwal, the director on the project who has since left Naughty Dog and moved to Japan to found a new studio, sat down for a lengthy interview with Lance E. Lee to talk about his life and career. When the topic of The Last of Us Online came up, Agarwal revealed that the game was around “80 percent” complete before it was canceled.
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https://kotaku.com/last-of-us-online-naughty-dog-canceled-vinit-agarwal-2000684224
KCD2 Director Daniel Vavra defends DLSS 5
![r/kingdomcome - DLSS 5 In Kingdom Come Deliverance 2… [KCD2]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3lK6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c7ffa0b-dde7-4cc9-9915-dd32a5160b10_640x360.jpeg "r/kingdomcome - DLSS 5 In Kingdom Come Deliverance 2… [KCD2]")
KCD2 Director Daniel Vavra on his own X discuss that the future of Game dev will use this tech but this is just the beginning of uncanny valley.
My question is it worth the pice to buy the hardware to run this with RAM and GPU going through the roof not sure when it will stabilise.
"I can imagine in the future devs will be able to train this tech for [a] particular art style or specific people faces, and it might replace expensive raytracing etc. This is just a little uncanny beginning. No way haters will stop this. It's way more than a soap opera effect every TV has when you turn motion smoothing on."
![r/kingdomcome - DLSS 5 In Kingdom Come Deliverance 2… [KCD2]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AIF-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F19670738-964c-4666-a450-4a29a0959cfe_640x360.jpeg "r/kingdomcome - DLSS 5 In Kingdom Come Deliverance 2… [KCD2]")
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📱Social Post
Pakour Game Tachyon Flow
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🔎 Interesting Finds
Disney interested to buy Epic Games
Is Disney going to buy Epic Games? I thought this would be interesting Rumor but I wonder what will happen to Unreal Engine. Epic games recently had a massive layoff maybe due to Fortnite fatigue among audience, this is a move to make the company looking profitable and ready for acquisition.
Disney has a new CEO so there is porbably going to be changes at the company and company acqusitions might happen.
I already am looking at other game engines that is open source like Godot and O3DE to remain open in the future as a just in case thing. I am not sure if Epic will go through with this and it will make me pause to continue to use unreal engine if Disney to takes unreal engine private I am not sure if Disney wants to get into the game engine business, they are there for Fortnite audience and the UE Tech for their shows.
Why an Acquisition Might Be Good
Unified Ecosystem: Disney could fully integrate its massive IP portfolio—including Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar—directly into a dedicated gaming platform.
Technological Synergy: Disney already uses Epic’s Unreal Engine for theme park rides and TV productions like The Mandalorian. Owning the technology could reduce long-term production costs.
New Revenue Stream: It would provide Disney with a robust live-service platform and a direct line to younger demographics (Gen Z and Gen Alpha) who spend as much time in games as they do watching TV.
Why an Acquisition Might Be Bad
Loss of Independence: Epic’s CEO Tim Sweeney is a vocal advocate for an open internet and has fought against corporate “walled gardens”. A Disney takeover could end Epic’s role as a neutral third-party engine provider for other studios.
Internal Division: Reports suggest Disney leadership is split; some executives view a full buyout as high-risk given Disney’s mixed history with internal game development (e.g., the closures of LucasArts and Disney Interactive).
Control Issues: Because Tim Sweeney maintains full voting control of Epic, any acquisition is impossible unless he chooses to sell.
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That’s it thanks for reading this far!
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