{"id":77589,"date":"2026-05-07T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77589"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:37:12","slug":"project-ethos-the-new-2k-shooter-undergoes-changes-as-dev-lays-off-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77589","title":{"rendered":"Project Ethos, The New 2K Shooter, Undergoes Changes As Dev Lays Off Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project Ethos, the third-person shooter in development at 2K’s 31st Union studio, is undergoing major changes and cutting staff from the project.<\/p>\n

Studio head Ben Brinkman said in a memo to staff today, shared with GameSpot by 2K, that Project Ethos is becoming a “skill-based PvP roguelike” as part of the “renewed direction” that was announced in 2025.<\/a> A new piece of concept art for the game can be seen below. Brinkman also said Project Ethos is aiming to be a game that will “challenge and thrill players.”<\/p>\n

“We’ve evolved as a team this past year in what has been a defining period of creative growth. While the moves we’re making haven’t always been easy, they are what is required to push us forward. I believe strongly in our ability to deliver on this vision and the promise of this game,” Brinkman said.<\/p>\n

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He also confirmed that 31st Union is cutting staff to “realize our goals and deliver this experience for players.”<\/p>\n

“Our success is dependent on our ability to work more quickly and nimbly. To do that, we’ve made the difficult decision to scale back our team to better align with where we are in development, which unfortunately means parting ways with some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Project Ethos, the third-person shooter in development at 2K’s 31st Union studio, is undergoing major changes and cutting staff from the project. Studio head Ben Brinkman said in a memo to staff today, shared with GameSpot by 2K, that Project Ethos is becoming a “skill-based PvP roguelike” as part of the “renewed direction” that was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77592,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77589\/revisions\/77592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}