Sony's first-party Bend Studio has undergone a round of layoffs following the cancellation of "a live service concept". As first reported by Bloomberg, it's claimed that roughly a third of employees ...

Earlier this year, Sony cancelled a live-service game that was in development at Bend Studio. Now, the company is laying off workers. Sony is reportedly letting go 40 employees at Bend, representing ...

TL;DR: Sony Bend Studio is laying off 30% of its staff, about 40 employees, following the cancellation of a costly live service game project. Sony cites rising costs and strategic shifts to ensure the ...

A new report from Game Developer points to Sony Bend Studio cutting ties with an unknown number of contract developers, following the cancellation of the unannounced live-service game it was working ...

A former employee at Days Gone developer Sony Bend Studio has claimed on their LinkedIn profile that the company has multiple cancelled/unannounced projects. Jacob Fieth worked at Sony Bend from ...

Days Gone director John Garvin doesn’t seem thrilled that PlayStation’s 30th anniversary trailer leaves out Bend Studio despite its contributions to the console’s history. The two-minute heartfelt ...

Developers are still planning to cook something up for their fans. Bend Studio made some headlines this past week. Unfortunately, it wasn’t for the reasons they had hoped would land them in the ...

That live service God Of War dream somebody had is dead apparently. Sony has cancelled two more of their live service games. As reported by Video Games Chronicle, Sony confirmed that one upcoming live ...

The developer of Days Gone has said it still plans to create “cool s**t” after parent company Sony canceled its unannounced live-service game. Last week, Sony canceled two unannounced live-service ...

Update 1/20/2025: The fact the staff found out the day the rest of the public found out about the cancelling of games has since been debunked. Jason Schreier posted on BlueSky detailing that, “I’ve ...

No one knows exactly what Bend Studio is working on, including Days Gone director Jeff Ross. However, as MP1st noted, he knows that Sony is spending quite a bit on it. “Whatever it is,” Ross said on ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...