Sony Live Service Woes Continue as PlayStation Executive Jade Raymond Exits Fairgames Developer After External Test Sparked Concern

Jade Raymond has near Haven Studios, the Sony-owned developer down online multiplayer shooter Fairgames, and reportedly delayed the crippled pursuing an outer trial successful yet different stroke to PlayStation's unrecorded work ambition.

According to Bloomberg, Raymond exited the institution she founded respective weeks aft an outer trial of Fairgames seemingly didn’t spell down well. The crippled was owed retired autumn 2025 but is present delayed to outpouring 2026.

As Bloomberg enactment it:

PlayStation enactment didn’t springiness Haven unit a crushed for her departure, but it came respective weeks aft an outer trial of Haven’s archetypal game, the online shooter Fairgames, according to radical with cognition of the matter. Some developers astatine Haven were acrophobic astir however the crippled was received and its progress, said the people, who asked not to beryllium identified due to the fact that they aren’t authorized to talk publicly.

Sony is sticking with Haven and Fairgames for now, with caller co-studio heads Marie-Eve Danis and Pierre-François Sapinski successful place.

It’s yet much occupation for Sony’s embattled unrecorded work ambition, which present appears to beryllium successful afloat retreat. While Arrowhead’s Helldivers 2 was a breakout hit, becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios crippled of each clip with 12 cardinal copies sold successful conscionable 12 weeks, Sony’s different unrecorded work games were either canceled oregon suffered disastrous launches.

Indeed, Sony’s Concord is 1 of the biggest video crippled disasters successful PlayStation history, lasting conscionable a mates of weeks earlier it was brought offline amid eye-wateringly debased subordinate numbers. Sony aboriginal decided to termination the crippled wholly and unopen its developer.

The Concord flop came aft Sony had already canceled Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us multiplayer game. And earlier this year, Sony reportedly canceled 2 unannounced unrecorded work games, 1 a God of War rubric successful improvement astatine Bluepoint, the different successful the works astatine Days Gone developer Bend.

Sony announced plans successful February 2022 to motorboat much than 10 unrecorded work games by March 2026, aboriginal saying the propulsion would bring games of antithetic genres to antithetic audiences. It spent large connected workplace buyouts arsenic portion of the drive, bringing successful Destiny developer Bungie, Jade Raymond's Haven Studios, and Firewalk Studios.

In 2023, Sony president Hiroki Totoki said the institution was reviewing the 12 unrecorded work PlayStation games it had successful the works, and committed to launching lone six of them by the extremity of fiscal twelvemonth 2025, meaning by the extremity of March 2026. Totoki said Sony was inactive moving connected erstwhile the different six unrecorded work games would travel out, adding: "It's not that we instrumentality to definite titles, but for the gamers prime should beryllium the astir important.”

Bungie is inactive flying the unrecorded work flag, with Destiny 2 ongoing and the in-development Marathon acceptable to motorboat fully. Earlier this month, Sony announced a caller PlayStation workplace called teamLFG and teased its debut game, which is simply a unrecorded work incubation project. Guerrilla’s Horizon multiplayer crippled is besides successful development.

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