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Sony is shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, a first-party crippled workplace led by erstwhile Call of Duty shaper Jason Blundell, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports. Before starring Dark Outlaw Games, Blundell was nan caput of Deviation Games, which was an independent studio, but besides happened to beryllium processing a PlayStation crippled earlier it unopen down, Schreier says.
Dark Outlaw Games had yet to denote what it was moving on, but considering Blundell's acquisition pinch nan Call of Duty franchise, it seems apt nan workplace was processing a multiplayer task for PlayStation. Blundell was a programmer and shaper astatine Activision earlier making nan jump to Treyarch to activity connected Call of Duty 3, and he contributed to aggregate Call of Duty: Black Ops games aft that, including serving arsenic nan head for nan run and Zombies mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops III and nan profession and Zombies modes of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.
Engadget has contacted Sony for much accusation astir nan destiny of Dark Outlaw Games. We'll update this article if we perceive back.
The studio's shutdown is being paired pinch cuts to unit astatine PlayStation focused connected mobile development, according to Schreier. Sony has made a wont of laying disconnected unit and shutting down studios successful nan past year, seemingly arsenic a measurement to retreat from an earlier finance successful online, live-service multiplayer games. The institution shut down Bluepoint Games successful February pursuing attempts to get a live-service God of War crippled disconnected nan ground. Sony besides closed Firewalk Studios aft nan spectacular nonaccomplishment of multiplayer shooter Concord successful October 2024. And a twelvemonth earlier that, Naughty Dog officially abandoned activity connected a standalone multiplayer type of The Last of Us successful December 2023.
That leaves Sony pinch astatine slightest 2 Horizon Zero Dawn spin-offs, a co-op game from original developer Guerilla Games and a MMO from developer NCSoft; Fairgame$, which is still successful progressive improvement despite nan departure of Haven Studios caput Jade Raymond; Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2; Bungie's Destiny 2 and Marathon; and if you really want to stretch, Gran Turismo 7. Sony intelligibly hasn't fixed up connected producing online multiplayer games, but it's not difficult to qualify its effort to grow into nan abstraction arsenic a disaster.
