Everyone remembers Concord . Sony Same. Therefore, the company continues to reorganize its game studios – this time the team fell under the blow PlayStation Visual Arts, based in San Diego. NMIA Gaming, in turn, writes about reduction in PlayStation Studios Malaysia.
The exact number of departed employees Visual Arts Not revealed, but Kotaku reports that people began to notify on Monday. Their last day in the company is March 7. Sources say that among the victims there are those who worked on recently canceled projects, including the game-service from Bend Studio (Days Gone, Uncharted: Golden Abyss). According to several "proven sources" NMIA Gaming in PlayStation Studios Malaysia, dismissal affected mainly teams of artists. 17-18 people left the studio.
It was difficult to wake up to reports that many of my friends and former colleagues from PSVA Fired. PSVA released developers with many years of experience; talent that will be extremely difficult to return.
Former Prochek Manager PSVA Abby Lemaster https://slotsnogamstop.co.uk/big-bass-splash/ (Abby Lemaster)
This step follows a loud failure Concord Last year, worth Sony considerable money, as well as with the abolition of a number of games-services, including spin-off God of War from Bluepoint Games (Demon’s Souls, Shadow of the Colossus).
The scale of the abbreviations is wider than just “cleaning” after the abolished titles – on the network it agree that this is part of a deeper review of the structure Sony In the context of financial difficulties. This, apparently, was also facilitated by the change of leadership: from April 1, the operating director Hiroki are totoki (Hiroki Totoki) will become the general director of the whole Sony. Currently, this position is TOEnitiro Yoshida (Kenichiro Yoshida), he will remain chairman of the board of directors.
Visual Arts has long been known as a supporting studio that helped giants as Naughty Dog With projects like remasters The Last of US Part I . PlayStation Studios Malaysia founded in 2020 as an auxiliary studio for working with Visual Arts.