Sony’s line-up of first-party builders has grown as soon as once more. Led by Jason Blundell, the brand new staff’s existence has been one thing of an open-secret for a while now, which is maybe why it’s first official look was somewhat low-key.

Jason himself lifted the lid on his new studio in an interview performed by Jeff Gerstmann.

“I’ve had the superb alternative to create a brand new studio inside PlayStation Studios for Sony,” he revealed. “The studio is known as Darkish Outlaw [Games and we’ve] been working away within the shadows for some time, and once we’ve acquired one thing to speak about, we’ll step out into the sunshine.”

“However you understand the story for me is in regards to the recreation, not in regards to the studio,” he continued, “so the explanation why we’re not doing a fanfare or shout about it from the rooftops is like, let’s get one thing, proper?”.

Blundell beforehand labored on the Name of Obligation video games, performing as co-head of Treyarch in addition to director of the Zombies mode. He left in 2020 to discovered Deviation Video games in 2021 which was backed by Sony. Nonetheless, the studio bumped into issues in 2023 which resulted in quite a few lay-offs. Deviation ended up formally shutting down final yr, and since then there have been quite a lot of experiences and rumours suggesting Blundell had been employed by Sony instantly and had been charged with forming a brand new studio.

The formation of this new studio brings PlayStation’s whole first-party rely to fifteen.

Let’s simply hope Blundell isn’t engaged on yet one more live-service title, eh?