PlayStation has acquired Firewalk Studios, still no word on what it’s making

PlayStation has acquired Firewalk Studios, a improvement workforce engaged on an unrevealed multiplayer title.

Again in 2021, PlayStation introduced it was publishing a sport from Firewalk Studios, on the time a subsidiary of ProbablyMonsters. Now, PlayStation has flat out acquired the developer, because it introduced in a PlayStation Weblog submit earlier this week. If you have not heard of Firewalk Studios, that is okay, as a result of since its inception in 2018 it hasn’t truly launched a sport but. Although the primary focus seems to be multiplayer, as that’s what the workforce at the moment has in improvement. Firewalk Studios becoming a member of PlayStation makes this the twentieth first-party studio the corporate now owns.

“Since asserting our publishing partnership with ProbablyMonsters and Firewalk in 2021, we proceed to be impressed by the workforce’s ambitions to construct a contemporary multiplayer sport that connects gamers in new and modern methods,” wrote head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst within the weblog submit. “The studio shares our ardour for creating inspiring worlds grounded in distinctive gameplay, and we wish to proceed to put money into their mission. We’re excited for Firewalk to carry their technical and artistic experience to PlayStation Studios to assist develop our reside service operations and ship one thing really particular for avid gamers.”

Firewalk Studios is led by Tony Hsu, Ryan Ellis, and Elena Siegman, all of whom beforehand labored at Bungie, having labored on titles like Future, Name of Obligation, Apex Legends, Mass Impact, and Halo.

“At this time we’re taking the subsequent pure step and becoming a member of PlayStation Studios,” wrote Hsu and Ellis in a joint assertion. “We’ve labored carefully with Hermen and the very gifted workforce at PlayStation for years, serving to to make our new sport even higher. To affix PlayStation Studios is to formally turn out to be a part of a household that has produced most of the most storied video games of our age, and we’re honoured.”

Possibly with this announcement and a sport that is been in improvement for 5 years we’d hear about it a while quickly. Contemplating Sony has plans to launch 10 reside service video games by 2026, that is in all probability certainly one of them, so that you’d suppose we’ll see one thing within the comparatively close to future.