Sony has revealed a brand new first-party studio referred to as TeamLFG. This studio consists of former Bungie builders who have been spun off to kind their very own studio throughout Bungie’s mass layoffs final yr.
The disclosing of TeamLFG occurred on PlayStation Blog, the place the brand new Bellevue, Washington-based studio teased what it’s engaged on. “Our first sport is a team-based motion sport that pulls inspiration from preventing video games, platformers, MOBAs, life sims, and frog-type video games,” an announcement from TeamLFG explains. “Gamers will inhabit a lighthearted, comedic world set in brand-new, mythic, science-fantasy universe.”
That description, in addition to SIE Studio Enterprise Group CEO Hermen Hulst’s admission that this studio “originated at Bungie,” appears to affirm that TeamLFG is engaged on a sport first teased by Bungie in 2023. It was one in all a number of incubation initiatives spun off on the Future 2 maker within the early 2020s, however in contrast to Marathon it is not going to be formally launched by Bungie. Final summer season, Bungie minimize round 17% of its workforce. As a part of that course of, many builders have been laid off. Some have been built-in into Sony Interactive Leisure, whereas others have been spun off to kind what would grow to be TeamLFG.
As a studio, TeamLFG says it’s “obsessed with distinctive action-based gameplay, moment-to-moment sport really feel, and richly social digital worlds.” That emphasis on social gaming could be seen in the truth that the LFG within the studio’s identify is meant to face for “Trying For Group.” TeamLFG additionally says it desires to deeply incorporate participant suggestions into the event course of and shall be holding early entry playtests for its new sport.
The primary sport from TeamLFG doesn’t presently have a title or launch window. Bungie not too long ago revealed Future 2’s The Fringe of Destiny enlargement will launch on July 15.