Firesprite Studio’s final outing (and first below the PlayStation Studio’s umbrella) was Horizon: Call Of The Mountain, the PlayStation VR2 launch sport that to today nonetheless stands as one of many solely instances Sony has utilized a first-party IP for its second-generation VR platform.
Since Name Of The Mountain’s launch nevertheless, a lot of the information we’ve heard out of Firesprite hasn’t precisely been one of the best. First the information that Firesprite had been impacted by layoffs, which noticed Call Of The Mountain’s director made redundant, and shortly after these first layoff calls got here a report which alleged that Firesprite operated with a very toxic workplace culture, which was already driving talent from the studio, layoffs or not.
So far as what’s subsequent from Firesprite although, as not too long ago as final month we discovered from a job itemizing that the studio is engaged on a “darkish, story-driven narrative journey.” At this time, noticed by MP1st, it seems to be like a further stage to this darkish, story-driven narrative journey is that it’s based mostly off an already established IP.
It’s in fact unclear what that IP is, however a minimum of this narrows it down a bit as to which IP’s this might imply, particularly if its one thing from Sony’s personal library.
Supply – [MP1st]