Sony axes two more live service games

Sony has canceled two extra live-service video games, one from its remake and remaster studio Bluepoint and one other from Days Gone developer Bend Studio in Oregon, the corporate confirmed to Bloomberg. Neither studio might be closed, although the corporate has but to say if any layoffs will happen. “We’re working carefully with every studio to find out what are the following tasks,” a spokesperson mentioned.

Bluepoint is the studio that created the much-lauded remakes of Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus. The corporate reportedly helped with God of War Ragnarok from 2022-2022, and following that, was engaged on the live-service mission canceled yesterday, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier mentioned in a post on BlueSky. Bend Studio has been a first-party developer for Sony since 2000, with its most up-to-date mission being the action-adventure sport Days Gone, launched for PS4 in 2019.

The cancelations are the newest failures for Sony within the GaaS (video games as a service) enviornment, following the spectacular flameout of Concord in September 2024. Whereas the corporate did have a success with Helldivers II final 12 months, it reportedly canceled a number of different live-service video games within the final a number of years, together with one based mostly on Spider-Man. Sony Interactive Leisure reduce round 1,120 jobs in 2024 throughout numerous studios, together with Bungie, Naughty Canine and Insomniac — a part of an unfortunate trend within the business.