PlayStation Studios has introduced the formation of teamLFG, a model new studio comprising ex-Bungie staffers and “builders from throughout the trade”, and the studio is already laborious at work on its first sport.
As revealed in a PlayStation Weblog publish, teamLFG “originated at Bungie”, however it’s now a separate entity that is engaged on what Sony Interactive head Hermen Hulst describes as “an bold incubation challenge that [he’s] very enthusiastic about”.
Simply in case you are questioning, sure, the “LFG” in teamLFG’s identify stands for “Searching for Group”, MMORPG-style. The studio says it is “pushed by a mission to create video games the place gamers can discover friendship, group, and belonging”, therefore the identify.
Within the PlayStation Weblog announcement, teamLFG says its debut challenge is “a team-based motion sport that attracts inspiration from preventing video games, platformers, MOBAs, life sims, and frog-type video games”. It will all happen in a “lighthearted, comedic world”.
If that wording sounds acquainted to you, it is in all probability as a result of the very same challenge was “introduced” by Bungie in August 2023, and it was nonetheless classed as an “incubation” challenge then, too. Seems like the sport should still be a way away from being formally revealed.
In accordance with teamLFG, its purpose isn’t solely to react to participant suggestions “in our lead-up to launch” (though it feels a little bit untimely for the studio to say that when the sport hasn’t even been revealed but), but in addition “all through stay service”, so it feels like this’ll be yet one more live-service experiment for Sony.
It might be remiss of me to not as soon as once more convey up Harmony right here; the first-person shooter was a massively pricey endeavor for Sony, however it closed its doorways inside simply weeks of its launch, ensuing within the closure of its developer. I am unsure yet one more live-service sport is the way in which to go, however hey, I am not Sony.
The brand new studio’s sport may even discover itself getting into a panorama occupied by Bungie’s subsequent main live-service challenge, extraction shooter reboot Marathon, which is because of launch in September.
Whether or not or not Marathon succeeds may properly inform whether or not teamLFG’s sport manages to see the sunshine of day, or whether or not it will get canned in an identical method to the 2 Respawn incubation initiatives which had been shut down just lately. Keep tuned for extra.
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