“We were making one helluva game”
- by Sammy Barker
Sony shuttered first-party studio Dark Outlaw Games this week, a new team fronted by Treyarch veteran Jason Blundell.
And contrary to common opinion its game was not a live service title, as confirmed during a Twitch stream with Junior Game Designer JCBackfire.
Speaking on the project, Blundell said we’re “gonna mourn what could have been because we were making one helluva game”.
While the pair didn’t delve into specifics out of respect for their relationship with Sony, they did stress that it was a title fans would have been excited for and that the outcome “f*cking sucks”.
They clarified, however, that they hold no ill-will to PlayStation and chalked the cancellation down to a tough business environment.
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“Times change, focus changes, but the project we were doing and what we were doing, fans would have been very excited,” Blundell explained.
This is the second project helmed by the Call of Duty Zombies man which has failed to get off the ground under Sony’s watch.
Previously the platform holder invested in Deviation Games, but funding for its sci-fi project eventually got pulled. Blundell started up Dark Outlaw Games instead, which Sony added to its roster of first-party studios last year.
The studio was recently listed under the “Evolving/Multi-Genre” category in a PlayStation presentation, which doesn’t tell us a lot about what it was making. But we’re sure details about the project will eventually leak.
To be fair, it sounds like the studio was quite small, so it probably would have required a lot of investment to get off the ground.
Given the nature of the economy right now, we can understand Sony feeling a little gun shy.
[source clips.twitch.tv, via x.com]
As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.
