Veteran producer Jade Raymond has left Haven Studios, the corporate she based in 2021.
In response to a brand new report by Bloomberg, Raymond – who rose to prominence after producing Murderer’s Creed and govt producing Murderer’s Creed II, Murderer’s Creed: Bloodlines and Watch Canines – has left her studio, which continues to be within the technique of creating on-line shooter Fairgames.
Though a purpose wasn’t given for Raymond’s departure, the report cites sources who observe that an exterior check of Fairgames happened a number of weeks in the past, and that some builders have been involved about the way it was obtained.
The departure rounds off an eventful decade for Raymond, who left Ubisoft to discovered EA‘s Motive Studio in 2015, earlier than leaving in 2018 for Google Stadia.
After Google determined to shut its inside video games improvement groups in 2021, Raymond left her place as Stadia’s improvement boss and, together with 5 co-founders and round 20 ex-Google staff, launched Haven Studios, a Montreal-based outfit with PlayStation funding its first recreation (which turned out to be Fairgames). Sony then introduced in 2022 that it was buying the studio for an undisclosed value.
“Jade Raymond has been an unimaginable accomplice and visionary pressure in founding Haven Studios,” a PlayStation spokesperson instructed Bloomberg. “We’re deeply grateful for her management and contributions, and we want her all one of the best in her subsequent chapter.”
They added that PlayStation is “dedicated to supporting Haven Studios and excited to proceed the journey”, implying that improvement on Fairgames will proceed, despite the fact that Sony has cancelled quite a few different on-line multiplayer tasks in current months.
Earlier this 12 months, it was reported that Sony had cancelled dwell service video games in improvement at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Video games, the latter reportedly being a dwell service God of Battle title.
The choice adopted the failure of on-line recreation Harmony, which Sony pulled from sale and took offline inside simply two weeks of its launch.
Haven Studios will now be led by Marie-Eve Danis and Pierre-François Sapinski, following Raymond’s departure.
Fairgames was initially revealed again in Might 2023 with a CGI trailer, and was described on the time by artistic director Mathieu Leduc as “a contemporary, trendy tackle the heist style”.
“In a nutshell, it is a thrilling aggressive heist recreation the place you be a part of an underground motion to rob the ultra-rich and rebalance the scales,” he mentioned.
