PlayStation London Studios drops virtual reality for its following task

27.10.2022

Concept art for PlayStation London Studios’ new non-VR game, described as ‘online co-op combat game set in a fantasy London’. The image features a purple, horned woman in a yellow shirt and purple leopard print leggings kneeling within a glowing circle while other characters battle a giant dragon in a contemporary London setting.

PlayStation London Studios, the first-party designer that for the previous 20 years has actually been understood for producing games for PlayStation peripherals like the EyeToy and also the PlayStation virtual reality headset, is leaving online truth behind for its following task.

According to PlayStation London Studios co-head Stuart Whyte in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz on Thursday, the designer’s initial peripheral-less task in over a years will certainly be an on-line co-op battle game embeded in a dream London, developed particularly for PlayStation 5.

“We are proud of the history and innovation that we’ve done over the years, supporting all sorts of PlayStation technology,” Whyte stated in the meeting. “With this project, we really wanted to explore some new avenues and set ourselves some new challenges.”

Whyte stated that the game will certainly be improved the Soho Engine, the workshop’s exclusive internal innovation, and also pointed out Horizon: Zero Dawn designer and also fellow PlayStation first-party designer Guerrilla Games as a motivation. “We got the inspiration [for the ideation process] by talking to our colleagues at Guerrilla Games,” Whyte informed GamesIndustry.biz. “We were fascinated about how they went from Killzone to Horizon: Zero Dawn, and this was the exact process they went through.”

The presently untitled dream co-op game remains in growth and also does not yet have a launch day.

Source: Polygon