PlayStation Studios has introduced the formation of teamLFG, a model new studio comprising ex-Bungie staffers and “builders from throughout the trade”, and the studio is already onerous at work on its first sport.
As revealed in a PlayStation Weblog submit, teamLFG “originated at Bungie”, however it’s now a separate entity that is engaged on what Sony Interactive head Hermen Hulst describes as “an bold incubation venture that [he’s] very enthusiastic about”.
Simply in case you are questioning, sure, the “LFG” in teamLFG’s identify stands for “Searching for Group”, MMORPG-style. The studio says it is “pushed by a mission to create video games the place gamers can discover friendship, neighborhood, and belonging”, therefore the identify.
Within the PlayStation Weblog announcement, teamLFG says its debut venture is “a team-based motion sport that attracts inspiration from preventing video games, platformers, MOBAs, life sims, and frog-type video games”. It’s going to all happen in a “lighthearted, comedic world”.
If that wording sounds acquainted to you, it is most likely as a result of the very same venture was “introduced” by Bungie in August 2023, and it was nonetheless classed as an “incubation” venture then, too. Appears like the sport should still be a way away from being formally revealed.
In keeping with teamLFG, its objective is just not solely to react to participant suggestions “in our lead-up to launch” (though it feels a bit of untimely for the studio to say that when the sport hasn’t even been revealed but), but additionally “all through dwell service”, so it seems like this’ll be one more live-service experiment for Sony.
It would be remiss of me to not as soon as once more convey up Harmony right here; the first-person shooter was a massively expensive endeavor for Sony, however it closed its doorways inside simply weeks of its launch, ensuing within the closure of its developer. I am undecided one more live-service sport is the way in which to go, however hey, I am not Sony.
The brand new studio’s sport can even discover itself coming into a panorama occupied by Bungie’s subsequent main live-service venture, extraction shooter reboot Marathon, which is because of launch in September.
Whether or not or not Marathon succeeds might nicely inform whether or not teamLFG’s sport manages to see the sunshine of day, or whether or not it will get canned in the same method to the 2 Respawn incubation initiatives which had been shut down lately. Keep tuned for extra.
