Fairgames (stylized as FAIRGAME$), an extended in-development multiplayer shooter from inside developer Haven Studio, has been cancelled, in accordance with a new report from Bloomberg. However regardless of the cancellation, Haven Studios won’t be struggling any job cuts, in accordance with a Sony spokesperson, because the developer will shift to a help position for different PlayStation studios.
The debut title from Haven, Fairgames was announced in May 2023 throughout a PlayStation showcase, led by inventive director and Haven co-founder Mathieu Leduc. Leduc had additionally served as artwork director for Ubisoft titles Murderer’s Creed 2, Watch Canine, and Watch Canine 2, labored on two unannounced and cancelled tasks for Digital Arts and Google Stadia, then based Haven alongside veteran producer Jade Raymond in 2021.
The studio was acquired by PlayStation in 2022 with Fairgames as its solely challenge, just for it to largely disappear from the general public eye after its 2023 reveal. The cancellation has been the primary information in regards to the recreation in over three years.
The Bloomberg story notes that Fairgames was a part of a PlayStation initiative to provide quite a lot of live-service video games, which has resulted in a mountain of canceled tasks and only a few successes, with some even being pulled shortly after launch like Harmony. A number of studios have been closed underneath the PlayStation umbrella prior to now few years attributable to cancellations from this initiative, together with Bluepoint and London Studio.