Also of note is that Future Club is officially a worker-owned co-op like Lab Zero was supposed to become.Īfter having been silent during this whole debacle, 505 Games finally announced that they are simply canceling all planned Indivisible updates, including promised guest and backer characters. [It is expected that Autumn is referring to them in their press release about hiring former employees, but unconfirmed, and Future Club's own press release talks about developing their own IPs. Several former Lab Zero employees, including Jonathan Kim and Mariel Cartwright, announced the formation of a new studio, Future Club. Soon after this Jonathan Kim confirmed that Mike Z had laid off all remaining Lab Zero employees, the company is no more. We have no further details yet, including who specifically is being re-hired for this. Annie will still be coming to the game but handled by Hidden Variable and ex-L0 employees instead. Former employee Brandon Sheffield (Necrosofty) also came out in support of everyone else with his own story about his time at Lab Zero dealing with Mike.Īutumn Games then announced that as owner of the Skullgirls IP they will not be working with Mike Z or Lab Zero any longer. Jonathan Kim (Personasama), Mariel Cartwright (Kinuko, later deleted the tweet because she just wanted to not deal with it any longer), and Brady Hartel (tweet also deleted) also announced their resignations shortly afterwards. Should also be noted here that ownership of the company had been temporarily transferred to Mike earlier while transitioning to turn the company into a worked-owned co-op, this was not meant to be permanent and Mike took advantage of it to become sole owner now. The rest of Lab Zero tried to negotiate with Mike to have him step down, which Mike apparently initially agreed to but then did a 180 to fire the board and assume complete control. An internal investigation found that there was a pattern of behavior beyond just the incidents we publicly knew about. The Lab Zero account has not tweeted since, and presumably never will, since.īrian Jun (EU03) finally broke the silence on his personal Twitter to announce that he was leaving Lab Zero because they could not come to a peaceful resolution. No statement came, there was more than a month of radio silence from here. Lab Zero then tweeted out that they were aware of the accusations and would make a full statement soon. I remember there was one more person who came forward with another story about racist behavior, but can't find it now, may have been deleted. , followed by Carbonbae sharing a similar story. Longass story, I'll try to summarize everything that's happened so far.įirst he made a very poor taste joke about George Floyd during a tournament stream.
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