February 10, 2023
With out even saying it, it seems that Ballistic Moon, the brand new studio based by trade professionals, has been acquired by PlayStation. Regardless of not having any video games beneath its belt, the studio was already working with Sony on a venture code named Challenge Bates.
The information comes from a job itemizing that has since been edited by PlayStation, however PSX Excessive was capable of confirm an archived model. It tells potential senior dialogue designers that they may work on main AAA tasks alongside its companions like “Naughty Canine, Santa Monica Studio, Guerrilla Video games, Firesprite, Ballistic Moon, London Studios, Housemarque, Media Molecule, Insomniac Video games, Sucker Punch Productions, and extra.” All of the studios listed are their first-party studios, so whereas sure Ballistic is partnering with PlayStation to carry us a sport that was supposedly within the early phases in mid-2022, it could’ve been omitted from the checklist.
This could be one more PlayStation Studios acquisition to develop its attain and seemingly the primary acquisition of the 12 months and little question what Jim Ryan stated final 12 months is true.