PlayStation Shuts Down Demon's Souls, Shadow of the Colossus Remake Studio Bluepoint Games

PlayStation has unopen down Bluepoint Games, the workplace down the remakes of some Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls.

This comes from Bloomberg, which confirmed the quality with PlayStation. Roughly 70 employees are going to beryllium impacted by the closure erstwhile it officially occurs adjacent month.

“Bluepoint Games is an incredibly talented squad and their method expertise has delivered exceptional experiences for the PlayStation community,” a PlayStation spokesperson told Bloomberg. “We convey them for their passion, creativity and craftmanship."

According to a erstwhile study by Bloomberg, Bluepoint was moving connected a live-service God of War crippled up until January of 2025, erstwhile the projet was canceled. The workplace past spent past twelvemonth pitching caller projects, but yet was shuttered earlier it could get 1 moving.

Bluepoint was founded successful 2006 by erstwhile Retro Studios employees, and proceeded to enactment connected a fig of PlayStation games, including respective collections of existing games specified arsenic the God of War Collection, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection. It besides served arsenic a enactment workplace connected ports of games similar PlayStation All-Stars, Flower, and Titanfall.

But Bluepoint's assertion to fame was its 2018 remake of Shadow of the Colossus, followed by its 2020 remake of Demon's Souls, some of which were highly praised by critics and fans. It wasn't until aft Demon's Souls that Sony acquired Bluepoint successful 2021. Under Sony's management, Bluepoint did immoderate co-development enactment connected God of War Ragnarok, but different did not merchandise oregon denote immoderate caller games.

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