It’s been a tumultuous few years for PlayStation’s Bend Studio – they released Days Gone in 2019, but despite selling millions of copies, Sony reportedly viewed the game as a failure. This led Sony to reject a pitch for Days Gone 2, which resulting in high-ranking members of the Bend Studio team, including Days Gone director Jeff Ross, to leave the developer. Since then, it’s been confirmed that the studio is working on a new IP, but very few details about it have been shared.
Well, today Bend Studio revealed a rebranding of sorts, including a new logo intended to differentiate the studio from some of Sony’s other West-Coast-US teams…
Bend Studio has also revealed a few more details about their new game, which will “include mutliplayer” and build on the systemic open-world tech they developed for Days Gone.
While the description above doesn’t necessarily rule out a more traditional story-driven adventure, it certainly sounds like Bend Studio is working on one of the dozen live-service games Sony aims to launch by the end of fiscal year 2025.
Any Days Gone fans out there? What are you hoping Bend Studios is working on now?
