Gaming News After Days Gone, this studio is working on a new PS5 video game, but …
After Days Gone, Bend Studio is preparing a multiplayer game. But this new announcement is already causing concern…
Last January, Bend Studio, the studio behind the zombie game Days Gone, announced that it was very seriously working on a brand new IP for the PlayStation 5 and that the project was progressing very quickly. The public was left with only one clue : The game would be an open-world multiplayer experience, the first-ever of its kind for the team. Community Manager Kevin McAllister previously claimed that this was Bend Studio’s best game yet. That’s enough to comfort a few thousand fans who were upset to learn that a sequel to Days Gone hadn’t been approved by Sony, yet encouraged the creation of a petition to launch the project, no less received more than 210,000 signatures.
A service game after Days Gone?
But there could be some bad news. A current job offer from Bend requires candidates with experience in service games and stating that their project is an online game. “Hands-on game development experience in leadership roles in live delivery of AAA games“,
Can we read the ad?.
Sony Bend Studio, world-renowned creator of Days Gone, Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Siphon Filter, is seeking exceptional talent to join our passionate and creative family and work on our next high-profile AAA title.
The Project Manager takes on a leadership role within the studio and is responsible for coordinating activities in an agile environment. He works with multiple stakeholders, product owners, project managers, producers and multidisciplinary Scrum teams to gradually develop deliverable products every sprint – excerpt from the job offer
This would also be a first for the Bend studio, which has never before attempted an experiment of this kind, which is currently enjoying as much popularity as criticism. For this reason, the position you are looking for is certainly also for a person with experience in “Redefining traditional game development studios with a focus on “boxed products” to live service development studios with a key leadership role“. Many are now hoping that it will be an open-world zombie survival game set in the Days Gone universe. Bend Studio had previously confirmed that the title would definitely be based on the game’s systems.
