Previous to Sony’s acquisition of The Persistence and The Playroom developer Firesprite Video games, the English studio was promoting open positions on two totally different tasks: a “game-changing big multiplayer shooter” and an “formidable darkish narrative blockbuster journey”. When Sony scooped the team up only recently, PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst was unable to verify whether or not these tasks would nonetheless come to fruition, merely stating as an alternative that Firesprite Video games would offer exclusive titles outside of Sony’s “core offerings”. Nonetheless, within the case of the “darkish, narrative journey” sport not less than, work on the title seems to very a lot nonetheless be going forward.
In a LinkedIn post made just yesterday, the developer marketed a improvement director place to assist with “all points of planning and supply on a darkish, narrative journey with genre-defining targets”. The staff has been sharing open positions on the web site for some time now, however that is the primary time it has talked about the challenge for the reason that Sony buyout. The put up even mentions being “a PlayStation studio”. Subsequently, it appears pretty protected to imagine this mysterious title will certainly come to fruition on PS5.
Elsewhere, Firesprite Video games can be hiring for its coding, animation, artwork, narrative, manufacturing, and design departments. The developer is already Sony’s biggest UK first-party studio, and whereas these positions might merely be changing those that have moved on from the staff, the hiring spree suggests the developer solely needs to develop additional.
There’s at present no phrase on whether or not the opposite challenge, the “game-changing big multiplayer shooter”, remains to be within the works. Rumours of a Horizon PSVR spin-off game also did the rounds some time again, however there’s been no replace or proof shared since. On the time, Firesprite Video games was searching for employees to work on a “VR motion journey challenge tailored from probably the most authentic and profitable multimillion-selling console IP titles within the final 10 years”.
