Sony closes PlayStation studio PixelOpus, known for Concrete Genie – Gaming – News

Sony is closing its PixelOpus PlayStation studio subsequent month. That studio was based in 2014 and is finest identified for the PS4 recreation Concrete Genie. The studio has reportedly been engaged on a PS5 recreation with Sony Photos Animation for 4 years.

Sony says in a press release to Engadget, amongst others that primarily based on a ‘latest evaluate course of’ that regarded on the standing of PlayStation studios’ tasks to gauge whether or not they had been assembly their ‘quick and long-term objectives’, it was determined to shut the doorways of PixelOpus. It isn’t clear what this implies for the PS5 recreation the studio in response to earlier posts labored with Sony Photos Animation since 2019. On Twitter confirms PixelOpus the closure, and thanks the gamers for all of the assist.

PixelOpus was based by Sony in 2014 and has since launched two video games: twin-stick rhythm recreation Entwined and Concrete Genie, an artwork recreation the place gamers create murals that come to life. PixelOpus was one in all PlayStation’s smallest studios, with fewer than twenty staff in 2019.