Dark Outlaw Games was a new studio Sony opened in March 2025, lead by Jason Blundell, former Treyarch developer who was the Executive Producer on CoD Black Ops 1, Campaign Design Director on Black Ops 2, Game Director for both Campaign and Zombies on Black Ops 3, and Zombies and Career Director on Black Ops 4. They were developing their first game for the last year, presumably a co-op title similar to CoD Zombies.

It only feels like a matter of time before the likes of Haven, Bend, or Media Molecule get the axe.

Sure seems that way.

Jim Ryan's big live-service push sure turned out to be disastrous. Most of the live-service studios they opened or acquired due to that push have now been closed, we've heard of at least 6 live-service games from Jim Ryan's big push that ended up cancelled, and of the live-service games, only Helldivers 2 was truly successful, while Concord flopped hard and Marathon started fairly strong but has fallen off a good bit (down to 53rd most played on Steam and 80th most played on Xbox after less than a month).

Yet Herman Spencer still has a job.