Days Gone Studio Hit With Mass Layoff After Live Service PlayStation Game Canceled

The cuts come as Sony's multiplayer pivot continues to unravel

Days Gone maker Bend Studio has been hit by layoffs. Roughly a third of the first-party PlayStation team was reportedly cut following the recent cancelation of an unannounced live service project. About 40 developers at the Oregon-based studio have been laid off, Bloomberg reports. The project they were previously working on was canceled earlier this year amid a purge of some internal live service projects, including an online God of War spin-off at Bluepoint Games.

Best known for the Syphon Filter espionage games in the PS1 and PS2 eras, Bend Studio later moved on to developing handheld ports of first-party franchises like Resistance and Uncharted before eventually making 2019's open world zombie blockbuster Days Gone. The game didn’t review as highly as some PlayStation exclusives but still sold well. While fans pined for a sequel, the studio hasn’t released a game since.

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