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PlayStation Cancels Online Shooting Title ‘Fairgames’

Sony has canceled the live-service heist shooter Fairgames after recent playtests showed mixed player feedback and retention, Bloomberg reports.

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This story first appeared in 🇮🇹 Italian coverage — 24 minutes before PULSE detected it in English news.

🇬🇧 English Nov 10, 21:20 UTC
🇮🇹 Italian Nov 10, 20:55 UTC · Multiplayer
🇫🇷 French Nov 10, 21:36 UTC · Gamekult

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📍 How it ended

PlayStation canceled the live-service shooter Fairgames at Haven Studio after years of silence and recent playtests. Haven became a support studio with no layoffs reported. The story quieted without a definitive conclusion on Sony's broader live-service plans in the coverage.

Epilogue added 1d ago, after coverage quieted.

The brief

Sony has canceled Fairgames, a live-service heist shooter announced in 2023 and developed by Haven Studios, according to Bloomberg. The decision follows a recent playtest where "player feedback and retention results were mixed and fell short of the goals we had set," an executive memo cited by Bloomberg states, also pointing to "challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre." The cancellation will not result in job cuts; Haven Studios, which Sony acquired in 2022, will now support other PlayStation studios, Bloomberg reports.

Fairgames had been part of Sony's broader push into live-service games, but the company has recently scaled back those efforts. Sony canceled other planned live-service titles, including projects in the God of War and The Last of Us franchises, and shut down Concord shortly after its failed launch, The Verge notes. Sony's live-service portfolio has seen some success with Helldivers 2, which is also available on Xbox. Bungie's Marathon, which launched this year, has had a rough start, though the studio recently showed new features coming in a December update, including a co-op PvE roguelite mode and a PvP deathmatch mode. Sony is also working on a live-service Horizon spinoff that was recently rebooted, according to The Verge.

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Quick answers

Why did Sony cancel Fairgames?

Sony canceled Fairgames after a recent playtest where player feedback and retention results were mixed and fell short of internal goals, and due to challenging market conditions in the PvP shooter genre, according to an executive memo cited by Bloomberg.

Will there be layoffs at Haven Studios?

No, the cancellation will not result in job cuts; Haven Studios will now support other PlayStation studios, Bloomberg reports.

What other live-service games has Sony canceled or shut down recently?

Sony canceled planned live-service titles in the God of War and The Last of Us franchises and shut down Concord shortly after its failed launch, according to The Verge.

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