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 workers, primarily based on its final public numbers report which put the studio’s measurement at “over 100 robust.”
That was the studio’s measurement at the very least 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 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 asserting the change of their skilled life, citing that the studio “not too long ago ran right into a troublesome scenario and was compelled to make a variety of 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 staff at Deviation was engaged on, although it’d now be the case that we received’t see the venture come to fruition.
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