As people stay at home across the world, their latest favorite pastime is a 2018 murder mystery game set in space called Among Us.
The game's exponential popularity drove its developers to announce on Thursday they were canceling a sequel to the game, to better focus on growing the existing version. The game reached over a million players on September 3 and had grown to over 3.5 million concurrent users worldwide by Friday.
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