Sony’s line-up of first-party developers has grown once again. Led by Jason Blundell, the new team’s existence has been something of an open-secret for some time now, which is perhaps why it’s first official appearance was rather low-key.
Jason himself lifted the lid on his new studio in an interview conducted by Jeff Gerstmann.
“I’ve had the amazing opportunity to create a new studio within PlayStation Studios for Sony,” he revealed. “The studio is called Dark Outlaw [Games and we’ve] been working away in the shadows for a while, and when we’ve got something to talk about, we’ll step out into the light.”
“But you know the story for me is about the game, not about the studio,” he continued, “so the reason why we’re not doing a fanfare or shout about it from the rooftops is like, let’s get something, right?”.
Blundell previously worked on the Call of Duty games, acting as co-head of Treyarch as well as director of the Zombies mode. He left in 2020 to found Deviation Games in 2021 which was backed by Sony. However, the studio ran into problems in 2023 which resulted in numerous lay-offs. Deviation ended up formally shutting down last year, and since then there have been a number of reports and rumours suggesting Blundell had been hired by Sony directly and had been charged with forming a new studio.
The formation of this new studio brings PlayStation’s total first-party count to 15.
Let’s just hope Blundell isn’t working on yet another live-service title, eh?
