Moon Studios is in a holding pattern on No Rest for the Wicked, which slipped from October 2026 to March 2027 with an open beta planned for December 2026, while its CEO launched the review site VideoGamesCritic on September 2.
Moon Studios spent the first days of September 2026 managing two different public stories. On September 2 the studio delayed the full release of No Rest for the Wicked from October 2026 to March 2027, saying the game had not reached the quality level it wanted, with the extra time going to performance, class system tuning, and polish. The PS5 version moved to the same month, and the studio scheduled an open beta for December 2026 plus a founder pack for Steam players who buy by January 1, 2027. Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 versions are planned.
The same day, CEO Thomas Mahler launched VideoGamesCritic, a review aggregation site that weights user reviews at least two-thirds against media scores. Mahler criticized Metacritic and OpenCritic for favoring media scores and for keeping launch ratings fixed, and the site adds a trust score for outlets based on comparison with concurrent Steam user ratings. The two announcements sit together in the record: a studio asking for more time on its own game and its CEO building a site that scores games differently.
Later September stories around Moon Studios do not appear. The studio's next dated item is the December 2026 open beta, with the March 2027 full release and the PS5 launch attached to it. Everything else in the cluster concerns other companies and other games.
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