It's been confirmed that Fairgames (stylized as Fairgame$) is being shut down by PlayStation. With the PS5 generation, PlayStation has invested heavily in the live-service space, to significantly mixed results. PlayStation's live-service ambitions have seen more misses than hits, with Helldivers 2 proving to be a runaway success, but Concord shut down within weeks after its launch and The Last of Us online multiplayer game ultimately scrapped.
Even though PlayStation's live-service efforts have not been all that successful, it has forged ahead with efforts to enter the space with games like Bungie's Marathon and the long-in-development Fairgames. Fairgames, for the uninitiated, started development in 2021 at Haven Studios, a company founded by Jade Raymond, best known for her work with Ubisoft. Raymond left the company in 2025, and behind-the-scenes reports about Fairgames have been consistently unfavorable.
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Now it seems that Sony has decided to pull the plug on Fairgames after five years in development. This was confirmed by Bloomberg in a new report that claimed Fairgames had been "reworked several times" and that there were plans to...
