PARIS – The reason behind a string of recent game cancellations was discovered earlier this week by a Ubisoft executive who realized that he had been using the Death Note in company meetings to track ongoing projects. Chief Writing Things Down Officer, Joe Dyer, realized his mistake when multiple projects died, mid-development.

“It was all there – three different Assassin’s Creed titles, a Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, a new Division, a whole new Splinter Cell trilogy,” Dyer continued listing games that will never see the light of day throughout our phone conversation, “I’m starting to worry about Beyond Good and Evil 2. I don’t think I wrote it down, because I always forget we’re making it, but I can’t be too sure.”

Questions remain about how the Death Note ended up at the company, though recently laid off coder Fred Parrish has a theory.

“That notebook has been in that meeting room for years,” Parrish said, before hypothesizing that his former employer wrote ‘Video Game industry’ in the Death Note. “Now I’m not making any accusations, but I may have seen it being used when people were demanding accountability for the sexual misconduct problems.”

Former software developer Mort Graves wasn’t buying the notebook’s accidental usage.

“There’s a reason you have no shortage of former Ubisoft employees to talk to. If they killed us, that would look suspicious,” said Graves. “Kill our projects and studios though? Easy.”

At press time, the notebook’s origin remained a mystery, though Google, Warner Brothers, and Electronic Arts have all claimed ownership.