Edit: The story has been up to date to report that Bluepoint’s canceled live-service sport was a God of Warfare title.
Sony has reportedly canceled two unannounced live-service video games that have been in growth at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games, respectively.
Bloomberg studies that Sony has ended manufacturing on two live-service video games that have been within the works at Bend Studio, finest identified for the zombie sport Days Gone, and one other separate sport within the works at Bluepoint Games, finest identified for his or her remasters of video games like Shadow of the Colossus and the Demon’s Souls remake. The Bluepoint sport was reportedly a live-service God of Warfare sport in line with Jason Schreier.
A Sony spokesperson confirmed the cancellations to Bloomberg. Sony additionally added that neither studios will likely be closed and that they’ll work with them “to find out what are the subsequent initiatives,” from the 2 studios will likely be.
That is one other blow to Sony’s bold live-service sport plans. In 2022, Sony acquired Future 2 developer Bungie and introduced plans to have 12 live-service video games working by the top of the 2025 fiscal yr. These plans have did not materialize after Sony revised that quantity down to simply six, of which Bend and Bluepoint’s video games have been doubtless two of them.
Sony additionally closed down Harmony developer Firewalk Studio, oversaw layoffs at Bungie, and canceled quite a few on-line initiatives like Naughty Canine’ The Final of Us PvP sport, a rumored Spider-Man on-line sport, a live-service Twisted Steel sport, and a third-person Future spinoff titled Payback.
This leaves simply Bungie’s Marathon and Haven Studios’ PvP venture nonetheless within the works, alongside continued assist for Helldivers 2 which Sony is publishing. There are additionally rumors of two on-line Horizon video games, one co-op expertise and one other being an MMO.
It is clear now that Sony appears to be rethinking its live-service technique, however whether or not which means backing on-line initiatives it believes will succeed or abandoning the area altogether stays to be seen.
Matt Kim is IGN’s Senior Options Editor.