Call of Duty veteran Jason Blundell’s first main post-Activision venture was the PlayStation-partnered Deviation Games, but it surely opened and closed with out even asserting or releasing a recreation. Now Blundell is beginning a brand new firm with PlayStation.
Blundell mentioned in an interview with Jeff Gerstmann that he is beginning Dark Outlaw Games, which is a brand new studio within PlayStation Studios. “We have been working away within the shadows for some time. Once we’ve obtained one thing to speak about we’ll step out into the sunshine,” he mentioned, as reported by VGC.
Blundell mentioned it is “such a privilege” to be the most recent first-party PlayStation studio. “Sony would not begin up first-party studios on a regular basis, so to have that privilege is humbling,” he mentioned.
As talked about, this is not Blundell’s first go-around with Sony. In 2021, Deviation Games signed a partnership with Sony to create a brand new IP that may unique to PlayStation. One other Call of Duty veteran, Dave Anthony, based Deviation with Blundell. Nonetheless, Blundell left the corporate in 2022, with a spherical of layoffs following in 2023, earlier than the corporate closed its doorways for good in 2024 with out its first recreation ever even being introduced.
There isn’t a phrase but on what Dark Outlaw is making for Sony. As for Blundell, he was instrumental within the creation of Call of Duty’s massively well-liked Zombies mode throughout his time at Treyarch. He labored on quite a lot of Call of Duty video games over time, and he directed 2015’s Black Ops 3.