Sony Has Decided to Cancel Fairgames, Live-Service Shooter from Haven Studios

After the Concord story, many gamers became skeptical about Sony making a new live-service shooter. Experience shows that lots of such games flop within a few months of launch and lose support quickly. A new report now claims Sony has decided to drop plans for this one.

According to a new Bloomberg report, Sony has canceled Fairgames, a live-service shooter from Haven Studios announced in 2023. The main reason is unsatisfactory test results, which failed to impress or meet the company’s expectations. This was previously reported earlier this year when the game was still in its pre-alpha stage. However, there are no plans to shut down Haven Studios or lay off its staff. Instead, the team will join a support studio that will help develop other PlayStation projects.

Sony has cancelled Fairgames, its upcoming PlayStation shooter.

PlayStation has pulled the plug on the PvP game after a recent test involving thousands of players failed to meet expectations.

The game, developed by Haven Studios, was announced in 2023 and had been reworked several times, with plans for a new reveal under a different title.

Sony says there will be no layoffs as a result. Haven’s staff will instead support other PlayStation studios.

This spring, it was also reported that Sony still had hopes for Fairgames despite mixed player feedback in testing and the disappointment around Concord. The game’s premise had teams of players breaking into a secure vault full of valuable items, essentially staging heists. Several teams competed and fought over scarce resources. The concept changed several times during development, and we will probably never learn all the details or see what the final version looked like when the project was canceled.