PlayStation Studios has introduced the formation of teamLFG, a model new studio comprising ex-Bungie staffers and “builders from throughout the business”, and the studio is already laborious at work on its first sport.
As revealed in a PlayStation Weblog put up, teamLFG “originated at Bungie”, however it’s now a separate entity that is engaged on what Sony Interactive head Hermen Hulst describes as “an formidable incubation undertaking that [he’s] very enthusiastic about”.
Simply in case you are questioning, sure, the “LFG” in teamLFG’s title stands for “In search of 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 title.
Within the PlayStation Weblog announcement, teamLFG says its debut undertaking is “a team-based motion sport that pulls inspiration from preventing video games, platformers, MOBAs, life sims, and frog-type video games”. It will 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 undertaking was “introduced” by Bungie in August 2023, and it was nonetheless classed as an “incubation” undertaking then, too. Seems like the sport should still be a way away from being formally revealed.
In keeping with teamLFG, its purpose is just not solely to react to participant suggestions “in our lead-up to launch” (though it feels just a little untimely for the studio to say that when the sport hasn’t even been revealed but), but in addition “all through reside service”, so it appears like this’ll be one more live-service experiment for Sony.
It might be remiss of me to not as soon as once more carry 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 best way to go, however hey, I am not Sony.
The brand new studio’s sport may even discover itself coming into a panorama occupied by Bungie’s subsequent main live-service undertaking, 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 an identical method to the 2 Respawn incubation tasks which have been shut down not too long ago. Keep tuned for extra.