PlayStation’s 10 live service games: what are they and who’s making them?

metro.co.uk:

Sony is planning 10 live service games for the PS5 in the next few years but what are they likely to be and how will they work?

Following its acquisition of Bungie, Sony announced that it has plans to release 10 live services games for the PlayStation 5 by March 2026.

So far though, they’ve yet to formally reveal any of them. All we know is that one of them is the first game from Canadian studio Haven (which Sony acquired earlier this year) while another is in the works at Jetpack Interactive.

That second detail was only recently discovered thanks to – what else – job listings at the studio, which may provide a further hint at Sony’s approach to these live service games.

In case you didn’t know, Jetpack Interactive was responsible for the PC port of the 2018 God Of War game. It was that port’s success that seems to have led to Jetpack getting to work with another ‘prized’ PlayStation IP.

Both the listings for network engineer and rendering engineer read: ‘We are now working directly with Sony to develop one of its flagship IPs within its much anticipated live services games portfolio.’

Combined with rumours and what little we know of the company’s plans, it seems likely that a significant proportion of those 10 live service games will make use of already established properties.

So, let’s make some educated guesses about which modern IPs will see a live service spin-off and which obscure ones may see a revival.

A new Last Of Us multiplayer spin-off has been on the cards since before the second game launched. Originally The Last Of Us Part 2’s multiplayer mode, Naughty Dog decided to cut it out and turn it into a separate game.

Very little has been shared about it in the three years since, barring one piece of concept