Sony Shuts Down Video-Game Studio Bluepoint by Jason Schreier for Bloomberg

Sony Group Corp. is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary responsible for developing remakes of video games such as Demon's Souls.

Roughly 70 employees will lose their jobs amid the studio closure, a PlayStation spokesperson said, writing in a statement that the decision was made "following a recent business review." Bluepoint will officially shutter next month.

And a little follow up from Jason's Bluesky account;

Bluepoint was working on a God of War live-service game until it was canceled early last year. The studio then spent the last year pitching and trying to determine what it would do next.

Bluepoint was the best to ever do it—and by it I mean remaster and remake the classics.

Looking at their Wikipedia page, I am surprised at how few games they worked on, but the pedigree of the titles is unparalleled. You got God of War, Metal Gear Solid, Uncharted, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Demon's Souls. not to mention support and ports for Titanfall, Flower, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and God of War: Ragnarök.

It is such a shame that Sony bought them back in 2021 just to send them off on a live-service ghost hunt and then axe their project and the studio five years later. This whole live service ghost is going to be the haunt behind Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst's tenure at the head of PlayStation.

Pour one out for Bluepoint tonight and put on this banger as you drink the sorrow away.