Urban fantasy
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| April 2025 | Longdue launched a Kickstarter campaign for their game Hopetown, which includes former ZA/UM members like Lenval Brown. |
| April 24 2025 | A crossover between Gargoyles and Marvel's Fantastic Four was announced. |
| April 16 2025 | The Legend of Korra will be removed from Netflix in the United States. |
| 2025 | Hilda is nominated for multiple categories in the 3rd Children's and Family Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Children's or Young Teen Animated Series, Writing, Directing, Editing, and Show Open. |
| March 2025 | ZA/UM announces an official mobile version of Disco Elysium for Android, targeting TikTok users, with a scheduled summer release. |
| February 20 2025 | Nickelodeon and Avatar Studios officially announced 'Avatar: Seven Havens', a sequel series to The Legend of Korra, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The new series will feature a new earthbender Avatar following Korra and will consist of 26 episodes across two seasons. |
| January 2025 |
SCP Foundation
SCP: Fragmented Minds launches Chapter 1, a first-person action adventure game set on Mars' Site-113.
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| 2024 |
SCP Foundation
Go Home Annie, a horror adventure game by Misfit Village, was released.
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| 2024 | Hilda wins the Annie Award for Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Children for the episode 'Chapter 8: The Fairy Isle'. |
| 2024 |
SCP Foundation
'There Is No Antimemetics Division' is released as a 4-part short series on YouTube.
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| November 2024 |
Persona
The Persona series reaches over 23 million copies sold worldwide.
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| October 2024 | Three separate studios (Red Info, Longdue, and Dark Math Games) announced they were working on spiritual successors to Disco Elysium. |
| February 2024 | ZA/UM laid off approximately 25% of its staff, including Tuulik and Klindžić, and cancelled the X7 project. |
| February 2 2024 |
Persona
Persona 3 Reload, a remake of Persona 3, was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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| January 2024 | Gargoyles: Quest comic was planned for release, written by Greg Weisman and illustrated by Pasquale Qualano. |
| 2023 |
SCP Foundation
SCP Comics Series, a collection of oneshot horror graphic novels, began publication by Aloha Comics.
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| 2023 | Kurvitz and Rostov launched Red Info, a new development studio to create a spiritual successor to Disco Elysium. |
| 2023 |
Persona
Announced Persona 5: The Phantom X mobile spin-off, developed by Black Wings Game Studio and published by Perfect World Games.
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| 2023 |
Persona
Actors Jun Shison and Haruna Kawaguchi were appointed as official ambassadors for the Persona series for promotional campaigns.
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| December 7 2023 | Third and final season of Hilda premiered on Netflix. |
| November 2023 |
Persona
Released Persona 5 Tactica.
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| November 2023 |
Persona
In a quarterly earnings report, SEGA Sammy president Haruki Atami suggested future Persona games would follow a global, multi-platform release strategy to meet sales targets of 5 million units in the first year.
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| October 2023 | A Halloween special comic focusing on Brooklyn's son Nashville was released. |
| October 9 2023 | Dynamite Entertainment announced Gargoyles: Quest, a comic continuation focused on Demona seeking magical artifacts, set for release in January 2024. |
| July 2023 | iPhone, iPad, and Android versions of the game are removed from digital platforms. |
| July 2023 | Gargoyles: Dark Ages comic was released, written by Greg Weisman and illustrated by Drew Moss. |
| May 2023 | People Make Games published an investigation into ZA/UM's legal situation. |
| April 20 2023 | Dynamite Entertainment green-lit Gargoyles: Dark Ages, a spin-off comic set in 971, focusing on Hudson and the Wyvern clan's early history. |
| March 17 2023 | Kurvitz and Rostov responded to ZA/UM's statement, challenging its accuracy. |
| March 14 2023 | ZA/UM issued a statement claiming all legal actions from former members were concluded. |
| January 19 2023 |
Persona
Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden were ported to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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| 2022 |
SCP Foundation
SCP: 5K (formerly SCP: Pandemic), a multiplayer co-op first-person shooter, entered development by Affray Interactive.
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| 2022 |
SCP Foundation
SCP: Secret Files, an episodic horror adventure game, began development by GameZoo Studios.
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| 2022 | Hilda is nominated for the British Academy Children's Awards in the Animation category. |
| 2022 | Nominated for Evolving Game at the 18th British Academy Games Awards |
| 2022 |
SCP Foundation
An American Journalism article suggested the SCP Foundation may have become the largest collaborative writing project in history.
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| 2022 | During Disney D23, an announcement trailer was released for a remastered version of the 1995 Sega Genesis Gargoyles game. |
| December 2022 | Kender dropped his lawsuit after Kompus repaid funds to ZA/UM. |
| November 2022 |
SCP Foundation
The Store is Closed, a multiplayer survival game, entered a closed alpha test after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
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| November 2022 |
Persona
The Persona series reaches over 16 million copies sold worldwide and generates over $350 million in revenue.
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| October 2022 | Martin Luiga publicly announced the departure of key ZA/UM members and the dissolution of the ZA/UM cultural association. |
| October 2022 | An initial legal hearing was held regarding Kaur Kender's lawsuit against the company. |
| October 2022 |
SCP Foundation
Duksin's trademark was ultimately cancelled.
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| October 2022 |
SCP Foundation
IKEA threatened legal action against Jacob Shaw regarding the video game The Store is Closed, claiming the staff uniforms and other details were too similar to IKEA branding.
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| October 2022 |
Persona
Persona 5 Royal was ported to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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| October 29 2022 | Dynamite Entertainment announced 100,000 pre-orders for the first issue of the Gargoyles comic, making it their highest-selling comic of the year. |
| August 25 2022 | The game was released in Japan by Spike Chunsoft. |
| July 22 2022 | Greg Weisman announced a new ongoing Gargoyles comic to be published by Dynamite Entertainment, depicting the series' 'Season 4'. |
| June 2022 | The direct sequel project Y12 was cancelled by ZA/UM management. |
| June 2022 |
Persona
Sega expressed interest in expanding Persona into live-action film and television during an IGN interview for the series' 25th anniversary.
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