Blizzard’s unnamed survival game had already been in development for over four years when it was announced in early 2022. Its team doubled in size that year with plans to grow even more in 2023. Now, after over six years of total development time and positive responses to the project from current and former Blizzard employees, the game has been canceled by Microsoft and its developers are out of jobs.

“I’ve been let go from Blizzard, along with many many others on the Survival team,” wrote Matt London, the game’s former associate narrative director, on X today. 

Other Blizzard survival game developers who announced their departures include senior concept artist Marby Kwong, designer Ates Bayrak, senior software engineer Renato Iwashima, gameplay programmer Michael Dale, character technical artist Matheus Lima, VFX artist Rachel Quitevis, and producer Megan Embree, who had worked at Blizzard for 13 years. 

The survival game’s director, Craig Amai, was also…

We’re still waiting to see if AMD’s next CPU design, Zen 5, can live up to its lofty performance expectations. But in the meantime, we now have our first Zen 6 leak which puts AMD’s future CPU architecture two generations hence on 2nm silicon.

We also now have a name for Zen 6, or at least for its cores. They shall be known as Morpheus. For the record, AMD’s existing Zen 4 cores, as used in Ryzen 7000 CPUs including the new Ryzen 7 7800X3D, are codenamed Persephone and the upcoming Zen 5 cores are called Nirvana.

Tom’s Hardware reports that the ‘leak’ comes from the Linkedin profile of an AMD Engineer which has now been edited to remove the sensitive information, but not before it could be screenshotted (is that a word?) for posterity.

The Linkedin profile text was quite detailed before it vanished and put Zen 6 on 2nm production technology. The engineer had also worked on Zen 5, describing that as a 3nm CPU. AMD’s public roadmaps have previously indicated that Zen…