About 30% of the workers at the Bend Studio, a video game development firm based in the Old Mill District, were let go on Tuesday, Sony Interactive Entertainment confirmed in an email to The Bulletin ...

Sony's first-party Bend Studio has undergone a round of layoffs following the cancellation of "a live service concept". As first reported by Bloomberg, it's claimed that roughly a third of employees ...

Layoffs already happened when their live service game was cancelled last January. Bend Studio has confirmed they have held a new round of layoffs. Word first spread from Jason Schreier, who shared ...

TL;DR: Sony Bend Studio is laying off 30% of its staff, about 40 employees, following the cancellation of a costly live service game project. Sony cites rising costs and strategic shifts to ensure the ...

A former employee at Days Gone developer Sony Bend Studio has claimed on their LinkedIn profile that the company has multiple cancelled/unannounced projects. Jacob Fieth worked at Sony Bend from ...

Kevin McAllister, Community Manager for Sony Bend Studio, has issued statement on X thanking those who have reached out to the studio in support after news broke last week that its live service title ...

Update 1/20/2025: The fact the staff found out the day the rest of the public found out about the cancelling of games has since been debunked. Jason Schreier posted on BlueSky detailing that, “I’ve ...

It’s been over five years since we’ve known what Bend was working on. We have new insight on the situation behind the scenes at Sony’s Bend Studio. That takes us to today. Timur222 found a LinkedIn ...

No one knows exactly what Bend Studio is working on, including Days Gone director Jeff Ross. However, as MP1st noted, he knows that Sony is spending quite a bit on it. “Whatever it is,” Ross said on ...

Earlier this year, Sony cancelled a live-service game that was in development at Bend Studio. Now, the company is laying off workers. Sony is reportedly letting go 40 employees at Bend, representing ...