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ZA/UM itself, or it's shambling corpse.
Red Info. The company Kurvitz and Rostov founded after they left ZA/UM, funded by Netease. Unfortunately we don't know much about what they are doing, other than that they have a project. Understandably the legal battle for the rights of Disco Elysium probably came first.
Longdue. Unfortunately we know the least about this studio, just some concept art and some PR speak.
Dark Math. This studio has a trailer for a game that's um... a little familiar, it's also associated with Kaur Kender who was one of the people involved in the shenanigans that went down at ZA/UM. Article
and now Summer Eternal, who don't have a trailer or proof of concept or pretty much anything except a manifesto (and are therefore the true inheritors of the crown, imo). That said, they're explicitly set up as a worker's co-op with a structure that's designed to prevent a hostile takeover, so it seems some hard lessons have been learnt
The scuttlebutt is that ZA/UM's non-compete clause for their ex-staff expired today, which is the reason for all these announcements, but that's speculation that can't be corroborated so take it with a pinch of salt.
thx! :) oh the non-compete clause thing would make a lot of sense, i was wondering why it was all happening so close to each other. Summer eternal does seem promising!