Bluepoint Games Shut Down By Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has announced it is closing Bluepoint Games, after acquiring it in 2021. 

The news comes via Bloomberg, who had also previously chronicled the difficulties the studio was facing- its live service God of War game being reportedly canceled mid-development. 

Now, the studio will be shuttered in March, with about 70 people expected to lose their jobs from the Texas-based studio. 

Bluepoint Games was originally founded in 2006 by ex-Retro Games employees, and was acquired by SIE in 2021 following the success of Demon's Souls for the PS5. 

In a letter from Studio Business Group CEO Herman Hulst, he thanked the studio team for their work and said some employees would find new work in other SIE-owned studios. 

This comes as the next major blow in what appears to be the fallout of the video game acquisition spree that would define the post-COVID era: Sony Interactive Entertainment has already shuttered studios like Concord developer Firewalk as well as mobile developer Neon Koii, as well as layoffs across their global network of studios. 

Bluepoint Games Style Remakes

While Bluepoint Games had been involved in co-development of multiple PlayStation titles like God of War Ragnarok and developing collections like the Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, in the PS4 and PS5 era they were best known for their ground-up remakes- first with Shadow of the Colossus on the PS4 then with Demon's Souls on the PS5. 

Given the studio's talent for pushing higher graphic fidelity without changing the base game itself, the studio had garnered a reputation online, with many fans spreading rumors of "Bluepoint remakes" for their own seemingly forgotten titles, like Bloodborne.