Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States who has been working with GameRant since August 2023 and self-publishing since May 2025. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has ...

The Chinese Room is dead, long live The Chinese Room! In 2017, the celebrated developer of Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture made most of its team redundant and went dark. Financial ...

Almost the entire team at UK independent studio The Chinese Room has been made redundant. The only remaining members are creative designer Dan Pinchbeck, composer Jessica Curry and lead designer ...

As reported by Game Developer, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 developer The Chinese Room has bought its own independence from former owner Sumo Digital, but laid off an undisclosed number of ...

The developer behind Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is going dark for a while, the studio has confirmed. The Chinese Room isn’t shutting down completely, director Dan Pinchbeck ...

Developer The Chinese Room has cut ties with parent company Sumo Digital, regaining its independence in the process following a management buyout. The company is currently working on Vampire: The ...