Sony Announces teamLFG, a New PlayStation Studio Spun Out of Bungie That’s Making a Team-Based Action Game Inspired by Fighting Games, MOBAs, And… ‘Frog-Type’ Games

Sony has announced a caller PlayStation workplace called teamLFG and teased its debut game.

In a station connected the PlayStation Blog, Hermen Hulst, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Studio Business Group, said that teamLFG "originated" astatine Destiny and Marathon developer Bungie, and is moving connected an "ambitious" incubation task he’s “very excited about.”

The LFG successful teamLFG stands for ‘Looking For Group,’ arsenic per the online vernacular, and it sounds similar societal gaming is simply a large portion of the games it wants to make. Its archetypal crippled is simply a team-based enactment crippled that draws inspiration from warring games, platformers, MOBAs, beingness sims, and "frog-type games." “Players volition inhabit a lighthearted, comedic satellite acceptable successful brand-new, mythic, science-fantasy universe,” teamLFG said.

“We are driven by a ngo to make games wherever players tin find friendship, community, and belonging,” the caller developer added.

“We privation our players to consciousness excited erstwhile they log connected to observe their teammates already hanging retired online. We privation our players to admit acquainted names and to marque myths and memes retired of each other. We privation our players to emotion remembering that 1 clip wherever they pulled disconnected That Play that changed the full communicative of the match. As we accidental connected the squad – dat’s da bully stuff.

“We volition marque immersive multiplayer worlds propelled by enactment games that players tin learn, play, and maestro for countless hours. We privation to physique our games with our communities, inviting players to beryllium a portion of our improvement process done aboriginal entree playtests. It’s captious that we enactment nimble capable to respond to subordinate feedback, not conscionable successful our lead-up to launch, but passim unrecorded work arsenic we proceed to turn the crippled and assemblage for years to come.”

It's the notation of "live service" present and increasing the assemblage for "years to come" that has already raised eyebrows among PlayStation fans. 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.

teamLFG's crippled is the incubation task that was spun retired of Bungie amid important layoffs past year. Following the Sony acquisition, Bungie reportedly repeatedly missed its fiscal targets with Destiny 2 connected the wane, starring to astir 100 employees being laid disconnected successful November 2023. A 2nd circular of layoffs followed successful 2024, impacting different 220 people, oregon 17% of the studio's workforce, with different 155 being integrated elsewhere successful Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was astatine this clip that this incubation task being spun disconnected was announced.

Late past year, a erstwhile Bungie lawyer commented connected announced improvements to embattled unrecorded work looter shooter Destiny 2, saying the relation of genitor institution Sony successful “forcing” done the changes was precise overmuch a bully thing.

Since then, Bungie has afloat revealed extraction shooter Marathon, and this week confirmed the roadmap for the aboriginal of Destiny 2. Bungie reportedly has nary plans for Destiny 3 and has canceled a Destiny spinoff task known arsenic Payback.

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