The cast and crew of Mythic Quest are being laid off and the last episode patched by Apple to 'say goodbye, instead of just game over'

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Apple TV's comedy series about a videogame studio making an MMO has been canceled after four seasons and an expansion pack—the four-episode spin-off Side Quest—as reported by Variety. After spending so long parodying the videogame industry, the show will get a send-off that sounds like the equivalent of a Dota patch.

"Endings are hard. But after four incredible seasons, 'Mythic Quest' is coming to a close," executive producers Megan Ganz, David Hornsby, and Rob McElhenney were quoted as saying. "We're so proud of the show and the world we got to build—and deeply grateful to every cast and crew member who poured their heart into it. To all our fans, thank you for playing with us. To our partners at Apple, thank you for believing in the vision from the very beginning. Because endings are hard, with Apple's blessing we made one final update to our last episode—so we could say goodbye, instead of just game over."

Meanwhile, Netflix is out here commissioning a second season of its unwatchable Devil May Cry anime—a show whose theme song is literally Rollin' by Limp Bizkit. That's not a joke, they deliberately subjected people to the song that makes you wish Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith put the wall back up after they were done. That show gets to live on while Mythic Quest dies. It's an unjust world is what I'm saying.

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

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