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Tag: ZA/UM

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut ZA/UM post-socialism Russia Soviet Union capitalism parallels Revachol
Opinion

Disco Elysium’s Post-Socialism Evokes Nostalgia and Melancholy

Bloodshot eyes, a corpse-pale face, hair that looks like the butt of Dylan Moran’s joke about comb-overs, and late 1990s Russian market stall ...
By Andrei PechalinMarch 24, 2021
Disco Elysium, ZA/UM, dj2 Entertainment, TV, series
Movies & TV

Disco Elysium Is Getting a TV Series from Sonic the Hedgehog Producer

Indie darling Disco Elysium is getting its own TV show. Variety reports that developer ZA/UM is working with dj2 Entertainment to bring an ...
By Michael CripeJune 26, 2020
Disco Elysium, ZA/UM, Robert Kurvitz, Nintendo Switch
News

Disco Elysium Nintendo Switch Port Coming ‘Soon’

A port for the award-winning Disco Elysium is making its way to Nintendo Switch. Developer ZA/UM’s art director, Aleksander Rostov, confirmed the news ...
By Michael CripeApril 7, 2020
Disco Elysium is like classic ancient Greek chorus, za/um
Opinion

Disco Elysium’s Brilliance Lies in Creating Chorus from Consciousness

There are many vivid and striking aspects to ZA/UM’s consciousness-based cop drama, Disco Elysium — the way it flips the typical RPG formula ...
By Sean MartinJanuary 18, 2020
Disco Elysium - Review in 3 Minutes
Review in 3 Minutes

Disco Elysium Is the Sleeper Hit of the Year – Review in 3 Minutes

Disco Elysium starts as a simple murder case and then sweeps you up in an intertwining web of stories in the impoverished city ...
By Elijah BeahmNovember 1, 2019
Features

Why the Creator of Disco Elysium Hasn’t Read the Reviews, and What’s Next for the IP

ZA/UM spent five years developing Disco Elysium, but the ideas behind the extremely ambitious CRPG date back much further. The game shares a ...
By Samantha NelsonNovember 1, 2019
Disco Elysium has great character building
Opinion

Disco Elysium Is One of the Most Fascinating Character-Building Exercises I’ve Ever Experienced

You wake up in your skivvies, face down in a trashed hotel room. You don’t remember a thing, but it doesn’t take a ...
By Jeff MattasOctober 29, 2019

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