PlayStation is the most recent identify to hitch an more and more lengthy record of corporations which have been hit with layoffs in simply the primary two months of what’s already been a brutal 12 months for the business. With round 900 jobs being lower, a variety of first-party studios are set to be impacted, together with Naughty Canine, Insomniac Video games, Guerrilla, and Firesprite.
As well as, PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst has additionally confirmed in a message printed on the official Sony Interactive Leisure web site that, as a part of the corporate’s restructuring, the whole closure of SIE London Studio can be “proposed”.
SIE London Studio was based in 2002, following which it went on to work on the Singstar and EyeToy strains of video games, earlier than happening to develop 2019’s acclaimed PS VR unique first-person shooter Blood and Reality.
In October 2022, the studio introduced that it was engaged on a dwell service PS5 title set in a recent fantasy model of London. The sport was set to be the studio’s most formidable title up to now.
