Almost exactly a year ago today, Sony and PlayStation Studios announced the founding of a new studio under the PS Studios banner: Dark Outlaw Games . The studio would be led by Jason Blundell , who had recently co-founded Deviation Games , an independent studio that was initially said to be working on a live service game for PlayStation . Blundell left Deviation shortly before it was shut down , and now, Blundell has seemingly gone down with the ship, as Dark Outlaw Games, just one year later, has reportedly been shut down .

First spotted on , user J-Soul shared that Dark Outlaw Games would be closed, claiming that the studio had been in the early stages of what was to be its debut project, though PlayStation clearly decided not to continue with it. The user adds that there are " an unspecified number of layoffs within PlayStation in the US and UK " taking place, and that the cuts are " said to be small ."

The user also added that these cuts are part of PlayStation beginning to move away from the mobile market, and that beyond existing titles like MLB The Show Mobile, Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble, and upcoming NCSOFT titles, it will be " scaling back in this space " in order to " focus our efforts on a few select high impact projects ."

All of that was just a user claiming those things on ResetEra, until Bloomberg's Jason Schreier semingly confirmed the news, corroborating that Dark Outlaw had been shut down, and that PlayStation was cutting " around 50 people " in its mobile departments. Though Schreier did not include specifics around games or quotes seemingly coming from PlayStation.

There's been no additional communication from Sony or PlayStation at the time of this writing, and while we've reached out to PlayStation for a comment, we have yet to receive a response.

It's unfortunately a day of layoffs in the video game industry, as this news comes just hours after Epic Games cut over 1,000 people due to Fortnite currently struggling.

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