PlayStation To Purchase AAA Multiplayer Developer Firewalk Studios

PlayStation has agreed to amass Firewalk Studios, the AAA multiplayer developer that’s engaged on a stay service sport for PS5 and PC. From a report: If the title sounds acquainted, it is as a result of Sony had already introduced it might be publishing Firewalk’s first sport again in April 2021. It’s the third devoted live-service sport studio that PlayStation has acquired over the past 18 months, alongside Bungie and Haven Studios. Firewalk was set-up in 2018 as a part of ProbablyMonsters (a collective of AAA sport builders). It was fashioned by a variety of Bungie veterans, together with studio head Tony Hsu (beforehand common supervisor and senior vp of Future at Activision) and sport director Ryan Ellis (beforehand artistic director at Bungie). It now boasts nearly 150 staff. Firewalk is the twentieth developer to affix PlayStation Studios.