{"id":39161,"date":"2026-03-25T15:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=39161"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:41:37","slug":"sony-shuts-down-former-cod-devs-studio-amid-wider-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=39161","title":{"rendered":"Sony Shuts Down Former CoD Dev&#039;s Studio Amid Wider Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4669990-screenshot2026-03-24at2.19.19%E2%80%AFpm.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dark Outlaw Games, the studio founded by former Call of Duty developer Jason Blundell, is shutting down amid bigger cuts to PlayStation overall, according to a report from Jason Schreier.<\/p>\n<p>Blundell&#8217;s previous studio, Deviation, was partnered with Sony and closed in 2024. As for the wider cuts, around 50 people are losing their jobs across PlayStation, including on the mobile teams.<\/p>\n<p>An SIE spokesperson sent a statement confirming the changes and saying they were made &#8220;to support long-term sustainability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sony-shuts-down-former-cod-devs-studio-amid-wider-cuts\/1100-6538989\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Outlaw Games, the studio founded by former Call of Duty developer Jason Blundell, is shutting down amid bigger cuts to PlayStation overall, according to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10039,4212,17730,552,1586,2770,16104],"class_list":["post-39161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-cod","tag-cuts","tag-dev039s","tag-shuts","tag-sony","tag-studio","tag-wider","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}