Deviation Games suffers massive layoffs before shipping their first game

Back in 2021 it was announced that ex-Call of Duty developers Jason Blundell and Dave Anthony‘s newly formed studio Deviation Games is partnering with PlayStation on a brand new AAA IP for the console manufacturer. Unfortunately, nothing has been shown from this game so far, and now to add a spanner into the works, it seems as though the studio is going through a massive round of layoffs.

As reported by VGC, multiple ex-Deviation Games developers took to LinkedIn to reveal that they had been laid off from the studio, with one software engineer saying “my studio recently ran into a difficult situation and was forced to make a number of layoffs which I was a part of.”

So far, this is all that we know of the situation, though it is believed that up to 90 developers could have been affected.

For the uninitiated, Deviation Games is a new studio which announced in 2021 that they were partnering with PlayStation to create a new AAA IP. No official details were shared, but one leaker claimed that the game is intended to be a “world-class FPS that is planned to be supported for years, if not generations.”

Furthermore, Deviation Games opened a second studio just last year and so this latest news has come as quite a surprise. Following the exciting announcement of the studio’s founding, Deviation Games seems to have suffered from a number of setbacks – including the departure of the studio’s founder Jason Blundell. Hopefully Deviation Games is able to get its new IP past the finish line.

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