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Two weeks in the past, phrase bought out that Sony canceled two unannounced reside service tasks from Bend Studio and Bluepoint Video games. This report was one thing Sony confirmed, the place a spokesperson additionally shared they’re figuring out the studios’ new tasks to “guarantee there may be minimal enterprise affect.”
It appears the primary affect from the cancelations are being felt now, as a brand new report has surfaced stating that job cuts are underway at Bend Studio.
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Bend Studio Hit With Layoffs As a result of Canceled Reside Service Undertaking
In accordance with GameDeveloper, a number of designers that had been engaged on the unannounced mission have revealed they had been both let go, or shall be laid off after February 14, 2025. Most of those builders had been a part of Bend Studio’s stage and system design groups, with one developer stating that Bend “made the choice to prematurely rescind all ongoing contracts aside from a choose few that shall be employed full time.”
It isn’t recognized how many individuals had been affected, and Sony has but to touch upon the layoffs as of press time.
With the success of Helldivers 2, it was a bit comprehensible why Sony pushed arduous for extra reside service video games. Nonetheless, with the huge failure of Harmony that noticed its developer shutdown,and Sony’s president even commenting on how extra checks had been wanted in an effort to guarantee nothing prefer it occurs once more, it appears Sony’s reside service mania has cooled considerably.
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Earlier in the present day, Sony introduced that former Sony Interactive Leisure co-CEO Hideaki Noshino has been elevated to be the only CEO of the division. Earlier than that, Noshino was the co-CEO together with former Guerrilla Video games boss Herman Hulst.
In an interview, former Sony PlayStation president Shuhei Yoshida talked about that Hulst was the one pushing for extra reside service tasks at Sony. This was one thing Yoshida was in opposition to from the beginning, and his reasoning for it made loads of sense.
Given how new Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki appears to desire a tighter leash on issues, and the current reside service mission cancelations, I might say Sony’s reside service ambitions might need taken a backseat for now.
So far, there are two recognized reside service tasks at Sony: one primarily based on the Horizon franchise, and Bungie’s Marathon.
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Days Gone Video Sport
Launched April 26, 2019
Developer(s) Bend Studio
Writer(s) Bend Studio
