PlayStation London Studios unveils non-VR, online co-op combat game set in fantasy London - Polygon

PlayStation London Studios, the first-party developer that for the past 2 decades has been known for creating games for PlayStation peripherals similar the EyeToy and the PlayStation VR headset, is leaving virtual world down for its adjacent project.

According to PlayStation London Studios co-head Stuart Whyte successful an interrogation with GamesIndustry.biz connected Thursday, the developer’s archetypal peripheral-less task successful implicit a decennary volition beryllium an online co-op combat crippled acceptable successful a phantasy London, designed specifically for PlayStation 5.

“We are arrogant of the past and innovation that we’ve done implicit the years, supporting each sorts of PlayStation technology,” Whyte said successful the interview. “With this project, we truly wanted to research immoderate caller avenues and acceptable ourselves immoderate caller challenges.”

Whyte said that the crippled volition beryllium built connected the Soho Engine, the studio’s proprietary in-house technology, and cited Horizon: Zero Dawn developer and chap PlayStation first-party developer Guerrilla Games arsenic an inspiration. “We got the inspiration [for the ideation process] by talking to our colleagues astatine Guerrilla Games,” Whyte told GamesIndustry.biz. “We were fascinated astir however they went from Killzone to Horizon: Zero Dawn, and this was the nonstop process they went through.”

The presently untitled phantasy co-op crippled is successful improvement and does not yet person a merchandise date.