Deviation Video games isn’t a PlayStation owned studio, however the venture at the moment within the works at Deviation is being revealed and funded by PlayStation, and will probably be a PlayStation unique when it releases.
Now nevertheless a brand new report factors to Deviation shedding as much as 90 builders, which is greater than half its employees, primarily based on its final public numbers report which put the studio’s measurement at “over 100 sturdy.”
That was the studio’s measurement not less than when it secured a cope with PlayStation, to work on an “progressive new IP” again in 2021. A 12 months later, the studio’s co-founder and chief inventive 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 compelled to make quite a lot of layoffs.”
On the time of writing there’s been no official phrase from Deviation or PlayStation. Not a lot has been mentioned about what precisely the workforce at Deviation was engaged on, although it would now be the case that we gained’t see the venture come to fruition.
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