It was recently revealed that Deviation Games, a PlayStation-backed studio founded in 2020 by Call of Duty veterans, was closed down before it could produce a single game. This devastating news emerged following posts on LinkedIn by former studio employees, which was said to have been developing an AAA shooter ‘in partnership’ with PlayStation. It didn’t see the light of day before the studio was forced to shut up shop.
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It has been a seriously tough eighteen months or so, with more than 10,000 industry workers being laid off and dozens of studios either deeply impacted or shut down completely amid ongoing financial struggles and a restructuring of the entire games industry.
On LinkedIn, Deviation Games’ former COO, Kriste Stull, said:
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of Deviation Games. I want to express my deepest gratitude to our entire team. Thank you for all your hard work, dedication, and contributions to Deviation; I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have worked with each and every one of you. To all the Deviators out there, we will always cherish the memories we made together. Thank you for being a part of our journey.
Deviation Games was founded in 2020 by Jason Blundell and Dave Anthony, both industry veterans who’d cut their teeth in the Call of Duty space. However, Blundell dropped the company he’d started just two years later, and shortly after, the company suffered layoffs. There were plenty of ambitions at the firm following the declaration of the partnership with Sony PlayStation, but sadly, nothing that the studio has been working on will ever be revealed.
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