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Star Fire: Eternal Cycle first launched for PC via Steam on September 8, 2025.

He explained that developers will often create their own deadlines and stick to them as if they were imposed by an outside source. This is when they realize the project is falling behind schedule. He used the example of Sony potentially stepping in after a long period – perhaps three years – and asking what’s happening with the project, given the significant investment already made.

“The City on the Edge of Forever” is widely considered one of the greatest episodes in Star Trek history. It’s a sweeping time travel adventure where the USS Enterprise encounters the Guardian of Forever and is thrown back to New York City during the Great Depression. The crew must prevent a change to the past, but Captain Kirk realizes doing so means sacrificing the woman he’s falling in love with. The episode famously ends with Kirk making the heartbreaking decision to let Edith Keeler, played by Joan Collins, die in a traffic accident, preserving the timeline at any cost.

Long work hours, often called ‘crunch,’ are common in the video game industry, but Naughty Dog has a particularly bad reputation. This is largely because they seem to have stopped actively trying to prevent it.