PlayStation quietly cancels AAA first-party game originally revealed in 2023

PlayStation has reportedly cancelled another live service game that has been in development since 2023.

Sony has cancelled a few live service games over the last few years, with games like The Last of Us Online and Concord ending up on the cutting room floor.

In the case of Concord, a game doesn't even have to be unreleased to face cancellation, with there now being 16 live service games allegedly cancelled by Sony since 2023.

According to Bloomberg, PlayStation has now cancelled Fairgames, which would have been a new original IP live service title.

Bloomberg reports that no jobs will be cut as a result of Fairgames' cancellation, with a PlayStation spokesperson saying, "The studio will shift its focus to collaborating with other development teams across PlayStation Studios, while also exploring new creative opportunities."

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Fairgames had been in development since 2023, and was supposed to be another live service hit for PlayStation

Developed by Haven Studios that was established in 2021, with Fairgames being announced two years later. The game was going to be a competitive live service game centred around heists. Think of it like a bigger budget version of the Payday games.

Bloomberg also states that a recent playtest of Fairgames was unsuccessful, with Sony not receiving the results it expected. The game had been reworked several times over the last few years, and Haven Studios was allegedly planning a re-reveal with a new title.

“While the test demonstrated strong operational excellence, live ops readiness and community engagement, player feedback and retention results were mixed and fell short of the goals we had set,” read a statement by executives Sean Decker and John Doyle on Tuesday. “Combined with challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre, we have made the difficult decision to cease development on the game.”

Fairgames was being headed up by Jade Raymond, who was a producer at Ubisoft working on Assassin's Creed between 2007 and 2014. She left the company later that year and joined Electronic Arts in 2015 to form Motive Studio. The company worked in collaboration with DICE supporting Star Wars: Battlefront 2.

Raymond left EA in 2018 to join Google as vice president, heading up the company's gaming division creating exclusive content for the Stadia streaming service.

Raymond then left Google in 2021 and formed Haven Studios, which was later acquired by Sony in 2022. She left Haven in 2025.

In recent years, PlayStation has cancelled several games and closed multiple studios. Bluepoint Studios and Dark Outlaw Games are two such examples. Both were working on live service titles at the time, an initiative originally set up by Sony in the early 2020s to invest in more multiplayer live service games.

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