Bungie & Sony Forming New PlayStation Studio for Sci-Fi Motion Sport

As part of Bungie’s announcement on Wednesday that it could be shedding 220 roles, the corporate additionally confirmed that they have been forming a brand new studio inside PlayStation Studios to work on a sci-fi motion sport.

In a publish on Bungie’s weblog concerning the layoffs, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons detailed among the modifications Bungie can be present process as a part of the transfer. Alongside integrating 155 roles into Sony Interactive Leisure, Parsons mentioned that they’d be working with PlayStation Studios to kind a brand new studio that may work on a sport that was initially one in all Bungie’s “incubation initiatives.”

What do we all know in regards to the new PlayStation Studio?

“Second, we’re working with PlayStation Studios management to spin out one in all our incubation initiatives – an motion sport set in a brand-new science-fantasy universe – to kind a brand new studio inside PlayStation Studios to proceed its promising growth,” Parsons mentioned.

In a press release on the layoffs, Pete Parsons detailed the explanations behind the elimination of 220 roles inside the firm. The choice has myriad causes, together with integrating a portion of its workforce into Sony Interactive Leisure. However the frequent issue is cash.

Presently, nothing else is thought in regards to the studio or simply what growth on the undertaking would possibly seem like. Whereas engaged on Future, Bungie can be engaged on Marathon, a brand new PVP extraction shooter that was initially introduced final yr.