Mass layoffs at Days Gone studio Sony Bend after Sony pull the plug on live service game

Sony Bend present reportedly making thing New

Sony person confirmed the cancellation of a unrecorded work task amid wide layoffs astatine Sony Bend, the squad down unfastened satellite zombie biker Days Gone.

Earlier successful the week, Bloomberg reported that Sony Bend were doing distant with astir 40 people, pursuing the nuking of an unannounced unrecorded work crippled earlier successful the year. Amongst the radical affected is erstwhile elder animator Robert Morrison, who announced his departure connected Xitter.

The studio's societal media relationship acknowledged the layoffs, without sharing nonstop numbers, adding that Sony Bend "remain committed to gathering the aboriginal of Bend Studio with creativity, passion, and innovation successful the titles we craft."

Now, Sony person confirmed the departures successful an email to Eurogamer. "Earlier this year, Bend Studio wrapped improvement connected a unrecorded work concept," it reads. "After cautious consideration, we chose not to determination guardant with it. As the squad shifts absorption to its adjacent project, we've made strategical changes to amended presumption the workplace for semipermanent success."

"As portion of this transition, a workforce simplification has taken spot astatine the studio," the connection goes on. Again, nary hard numbers. According to Bloomberg, Sony Bend present person a caller crippled successful the works.

All this continues Sony's on-going partial retreat from blockbuster unrecorded work productions, which has seen them cancel The Last Of Us Online, a co-op Spider-Man and a caller God Of War crippled contempt 2022-era plans to motorboat much than 10 of the things by March 2026. As Brendy wrote successful January, erstwhile quality of the Bend project's abandonment archetypal surfaced, Sony look terrified by the nonaccomplishment of past year's Concord, which they unopen down specified weeks into its support beingness aft it failed to accrue figures of capable bigness astatine launch.

To punctuation Arrowhead Games Studio CEO Shams Jorjani from an interrogation successful April: "Who among these executives is stepping down? Or slashing their salaries?" Best of luck to each affected.