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Midnight Society shuts down and kills Dead Drop game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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In the wake of parting ways with gaming personality Dr. Disrespect, Midnight Society has closed its doors and killed the first-person shooter game Dead Drop.

The studio’s fortunes took a turn for the worse when cofounder and popular streamer Dr. Disrespect was accused in the summer of 2024 by a former Twitch employee that Dr. Disrespect had had sexually explicit conversations with a minor on the direct messaging part of Twitch — which was allegedly the reason he was banned on Twitch four years earlier in 2020. At the time, Twitch would only say it was due to a violation of community standards.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.