Sony is shutting down yet another one of its game development studios. Since making a number of acquisitions between 2019 and 2023, Sony has been slowly winding back on its investments. The latest casaulty is actually a new studio that formed just last year – Dark Outlaw Games.

Sony brought in Jason Blundell, former co-head of Treyarch and director of Call of Duty: Zombies, to form Dark Outlaw Games just one year ago. Now, as of the 24th of March, Sony is shutting the studio down before it could even get a game greenlit.

Unfortunately for Blundell, this isn't even the first time this has happened to him. He also formed Deviation Games back in 2020, only for the studio to shut down in 2024 following his departure in 2022 to join Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Sony has burned a lot of money over the PS5 generation chasing the live-service golden goose, with very little to show for it. More than a dozen live-service titles had been greenlit early on in the PS5's lifecycle, a move that drew much criticism from core PlayStation fans, as the company had just had tremendous success in the PS4 generation making cinematic single-player games.

This latest shutdown is part of Sony's effort to course correct following the retirement of former PlayStation head, Jim Ryan.

KitGuru Says: Sony has missed on almost every major live-service project it has attempted so far. Even Bungie, once hailed as kings of the genre, have begun floundering over the past few years since joining Sony. We can only hope that next generation, Sony gets back to the excellent single-player titles it became widely known for during the PS4 and PS3 eras.

Yesterday, we learned that Sony and PlayStation had shut down yet another studio it had previously founded and added to the PlayStation Studios family. Dark Outlaw Games was founded by PlayStation in March 2025, and almost exactly a year later, PlayStation shut down Dark Outlaw Games, long before the studio had a chance to get its debut project out the door. Which, according to Dark Outlaw Games studio head Jason Blundell, a former Call of Duty developer who was one of the key developers behind the first four Black Ops games, would have been "a hell of a game," and […]

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Almost exactly a year ago today, Sony and PlayStation Studios announced the founding of a new studio under the PS Studios banner: Dark Outlaw Games. The studio would be led by Jason Blundell, who had recently co-founded Deviation Games, an independent studio that was initially said to be working on a live service game for PlayStation. Blundell left Deviation shortly before it was shut down, and now, Blundell has seemingly gone down with the ship, as Dark Outlaw Games, just one year later, has reportedly been shut down. First spotted on ResetEra, user J-Soul shared that Dark Outlaw Games would […]

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