Deviation Video games isn’t a PlayStation owned studio, however the mission presently within the works at Deviation is being printed 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 workers, based mostly on its final public numbers report which put the studio’s dimension at “over 100 robust.”
That was the studio’s dimension a minimum of when it secured a take care of PlayStation, to work on an “modern new IP” again in 2021. A 12 months later, the studio’s co-founder and chief artistic 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 “just lately ran right into a troublesome state of affairs and was pressured to make numerous layoffs.”
On the time of writing there’s been no official phrase from Deviation or PlayStation. Not a lot has been stated about what precisely the group at Deviation was engaged on, although it’d now be the case that we gained’t see the mission come to fruition.
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