In 2021,Call of DutyZombies creator Jason Blundell and Treyarch veteran Dave Anthony unveiled their new studio, Deviation Games, which had partnered with Sony to develop a PS5 exclusive live-service shooter.
However, in 2024,the project was cancelled and the studio shuttered. No footage was ever shown publicly—we don’t even know what the game was called—but after several years, we finally have our first look.
As reported byMP1st, an artist who worked at Deviation Games shared some of the project’s concept art online, giving us a glimpse at what the team was working on. you may see a couple of snippets fromthe Imgur gallerybelow.
Deviatiation Games Was Working On A Futuristic Sci-Fi Shooter
The first image reveals that this would’ve been a futuristic sci-fi game, set in the sprawling expanse of space. The artwork also shows an intricate gauntlet (the “Power Glove”) with an extendable mechanism and spinning barrel generating electricity, several revolver skins, all of which display their ammo count on the side via a small neon-green display, a diagram detailing various attachments for a customisable pistol, and a standard scoped rifle.
One of the file names has a 2020 timestamp.
Nestled among these is a character called “Berserker”, which, as MP1st speculates, may indicate that Deviation Games was working on a hero shooter in the vein ofConcordandOverwatch 2, rather than a traditional FPS like Blundell and Anthony’s previous work. Regardless, even with this new artwork, details are scarce.
It’s far from the only live-service project that Sony has cancelled following its misguided push into the multiplayer space.
Concord was infamously taken offline a mere week after launch;God of War and Spider-Man spin-offs were cancelled before ever being announced; The Last of Us' standalone Factions game wasscrapped so that Naughty Dog could focus on its single-player projects; aTwisted Metal live-service game from Firesprite was cancelled; PlayStation London’s fantasy live-service offering didn’t make it to launch,leading to the entire studio being shutdown; Project Payback,a new Bungie game speculated to be Destiny 3, was also axed; anda Horizon MMO was reportedly shelved.
Sony still has a few live-service games in the pipeline, however, with a different Horizon spin-off reportedly still in the works, as well as the controversial Bungie-developed Marathon,which was just delayed indefinitely. But it’s hardly a great turnout from the console giant afterits promise to deliver ten live-service games by next year.
