Bloodborne Gamers Distraught as Sony Quietly Cancels Upcoming Project

Bloodborne fans have been left distraught following a recent cancellation from Sony.

In case you missed the news, last week Bloomberg reported that Sony had shut down Bluepoint Games, the developer behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes.

The studio will close down in March, with 70 employees losing their jobs.

Given Bluepoint Games’ history with FromSoftware titles, fans were hopeful for years that the developer could be picked for a potential Bloodborne remake either towards the end of this generation, or as a PlayStation 6 title.

That will, obviously, no longer come to happen. And if things weren’t bad enough, a different Bloodborne project has also been quietly cancelled by Sony.

Bloodborne Fan Project Was Shut Down With No Warning

A Bloodborne remake project with the name Bloodborne Top Down Arena was shown off in 2024, and appears to have been hit with a cease and desist letter from Sony following its reveal.

This has prompting its creator, 3D artist Maxime Foulquier, to shut it down.

Bloodborne Top Down Arena would have reimagined the FromSoftware classic as a top-down Diablo-style RPG.

It’s a bit different from your traditional Soulslike, but looked pretty cool nonetheless.

“Sony sent me a cease and desist letter regarding my second Bloodborne remake project that I posted about in November 2024,” Foulquier posted, sharing an image of the apparent cease and desist.

“I was incredibly excited about this project and worked on it a lot in my spare time. Then I received the letter you can see here. I told myself, ‘Okay… I expected this might happen. Maybe it’s because a real Bloodborne remake is actually in development, with Bluepoint leading it for the PS6 launch?’

“I didn’t say anything in March 2025 because I decided to repurpose all the assets I had created for that project into a new game set in my own universe, inspired by Bloodborne."

"My plan was to reveal the letter once the game was ready to communicate."

“Unfortunately, plans have changed. I’d rather speak about it now, as my disappointment is immense. The disappearance of Bluepoint is a tremendous loss for the industry and for the dream of a Bloodborne remake.”

Foulquier ends the post by writing: “Why are you making such absurd decisions, Sony? Shutting down such a talented studio while you’re not even making a Bloodborne remake and on top of that, sending cease and desist letters to small fan projects? Are you serious?”

In addition to this, Sony also shut down the fan-made game Bloodborne Kart, which was originally made as an April Fool’s joke before becoming its own thing.

Sony didn’t like that, however, and contacted Bloodborne Kart’s creator LWMedia over unauthorized use of the Bloodborne intellectual property.

The game was then rebranded as Nightmare Kart, and has been available on Steam since 2024.