A job itemizing has outed a brand new PlayStation studio in L.A., which seems to be led by a former Call Of Duty veteran.
Sony has closed down a number of builders over the previous yr, together with Concord developer Firewalk Studios and London Studio, nevertheless it appears the corporate has been secretly creating new ones as properly.
A job itemizing has appeared at PlayStation for a venture senior producer at a ‘newly established AAA studio based mostly in Los Angeles’, which is ‘pushed by a workforce of seasoned trade leaders and skilled sport builders’. The venture is described as a ‘groundbreaking AAA unique IP’.
It’s unclear who precisely is working on the studio, or what it’s known as, however all indicators level to it being led by Call Of Duty Zombies creator Jason Blundell.
After leaving Call Of Duty developer Treyarch, Blundell co-founded L.A. based mostly studio Deviation Games with Dave Anthony in 2020, which had partnered with Sony to make an unique IP. Blundell left two years later, and the studio was formally shut down in March final yr, earlier than it had even launched a single sport.
According to subsequent reports, Sony had fashioned a brand new studio with ex-Deviation Games staff. While this was by no means formally introduced by Sony, a former worker at Deviation, JC Farmer, posted on X in December 2023 that they’d joined PlayStation Studios as a junior sport designer, and that he works for Blundell.
All this context has been highlighted in reference to the brand new job itemizing on ResetEra, and whereas there’s an opportunity it’s unrelated (a bunch of Bungie staff have been just lately built-in into Sony as properly), all the knowledge appears to match up.
Interestingly, a rumour from August claimed Blundell and his new studio had partnered with Destiny 2 developer Bungie for ‘an motion sport set in a model new science-fantasy universe’ – one thing Bungie was apparently engaged on already. None of this, nonetheless, has been formally annouced.
If it’s Blundell’s new studio, the dynamics of the entire state of affairs is considerably odd. Devation Games was an unbiased studio, which had solely teamed-up with PlayStation to publish its first sport. It’s unclear what occurred for the studio to basically shut down and re-emerge below Sony’s wing, however a former worker at Deviation previously described points with sure members of administration in a LinkedIn publish.
This isn’t the one mysterious studio we’ve heard about at Sony lately. In 2022, a job itemizing appeared for an internship at a brand new studio in San Diego, which was mentioned to be working with Naughty Dog on a ‘beloved franchise’.
That appeared to indicate a brand new Uncharted sport, however neither it nor the studio itself has ever been formally introduced.
As for what’s formally introduced from Sony, Naughty Dog just lately revealed its subsequent sport as Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, whereas Insomniac is at the moment engaged on Marvel’s Wolverine. The solely different confirmed tasks are Ghost of Yōtei from Sucker Punch Productions, Fairgame$ from Haven, and Bungie’s Marathon.
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