Fairgame$ – the heist shooter from Jade Raymond’s new studio, Haven – has allegedly been delayed.
While we do not know a lot concerning the live-service sport aside from it was anticipated later this 12 months and is in improvement for PC and PlayStation 5, Big Bomb’s Jeff Grubb revealed throughout the Recreation Mess Decides podcast that the discharge had slipped to 2026.
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Grubb did not supply any explanations as to why the mission could have fallen delayed, however stated it was unlikely to make an look “this 12 months”.
“No Fairgame$ this 12 months,” Grubb stated, “Fairgame$, so far as I’m conscious, has been pushed to 2026.”
Again in February 2022, Sony said it aimed to launch over 10 new dwell service video games over the approaching years. A month later, then-Sony exec Jim Ryan stated he believed dwell service video games have been a key a part of gaming’s future, assured in PlayStation’s dwell service push.
Nevertheless, since then, the corporate has been pulling again on this imaginative and prescient, with a number of proposed tasks cancelled, together with two simply final month, regarded as one from Days Gone developer Bend and one from Bluepoint.
Regardless of being in improvement for for eight years, Sony’s 5v5 sci-fi shooter Harmony was taken offline simply two weeks after its PC and PS5 debut final 12 months, following a lackluster launch and weak gross sales.
Quite a few different dwell service video games have additionally been cancelled by Sony, together with London Studio’s co-op sport, with the studio additionally shut down final 12 months. In 2023, Naughty Canine cancelled its standalone multiplayer sport set on this planet of The Final of Us, and a dwell service Twisted Steel mission at Firespite was equally cancelled together with a co-operative dwell service Spider-Man sport from developer Insomniac entitled Spider-Man: The Nice Internet.
We have reached out to Sony for remark and can replace as and once we hear again.
