Deviation Video games isn’t a PlayStation owned studio, however the undertaking at present within the works at Deviation is being revealed and funded by PlayStation, and shall be a PlayStation unique when it releases.
Now nonetheless a brand new report factors to Deviation shedding as much as 90 builders, which is greater than half its workers, primarily based on its final public numbers report which put the studio’s measurement at “over 100 robust.”
That was the studio’s measurement a minimum of when it secured a take care of PlayStation, to work on an “revolutionary new IP” again in 2021. A 12 months later, the studio’s co-founder and chief artistic officer, Jason Blundell, left Deviation.
A report from VGC pointed to the layoffs, and a number of LinkedIn posts from now ex-Deviation staff all saying the change of their skilled life, citing that the studio “lately ran right into a troublesome scenario and was pressured to make a lot of layoffs.”
On the time of writing there’s been no official phrase from Deviation or PlayStation. Not a lot has been stated about what precisely the group at Deviation was engaged on, although it would now be the case that we received’t see the undertaking come to fruition.
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