In addition to one of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s latest acquisitions, more may arrive during the year.
Let’s start with FireSprite. They joined the PlayStation Studios last year, and they haven’t been idle for long: it’s official that Horizon Call of the Mountainen is helping the Guerrilla Games so the PlayStation VR2 can get a particularly powerful game. We’ve also written at the rumor level that the resurrection of Twisted Metal may also be tied to them. These are two projects, but it is possible that three trees will be put in the fire at the same time…!
FireSprite is a new one job advertisement is working on an AAA, narrative-driven, horror-adventure genre game that will be realized with Unreal Engine 5. Their other game is an AAA multiplayer action game (there is also a their job advertisement) may also introduce new technology from Epic Games. We suspect the latter that this could be Twisted Metal. And that’s where Sony’s investment in Epic Games makes sense: so maybe they can get access to Tim Sweeney’s technology on sale…?
And how does The Last of Us Part II track designer Pete Ellis relate to all this? Well, FireSprite already has experience in the genre (The Persistence was a horror roguelike from them), and last May Ellis On Twitter he confirmed that he had joined the studio to be the director of “a story-driven adventure game”. This may be a certain horror game that is unlikely to be announced any time soon, as the other two projects may be ahead…
This tweet and summarizes what Greg Miller and Jeff Grubb claim. The former postponed its podcast due to major announcements (Sony dropped it on the new PlayStation Plus model… but only in part), and the reason was not the confirmation of Spartacus, but the fact that Sony was preparing for another major acquisition, a it may be a major studio. They’ve both heard this from several sources, and although the new business year has begun today (starting on April 1st at many companies), Sony may still have a strong start in this area…
We’ll see.
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