Call of Duty veteran Jason Blundell has confirmed previous reports he’s heading up a new PlayStation first-party studio, revealing it to be named Dark Outlaw Games.
Blundell departed Call of Duty developer Treyarch – where he’d served as studio co-head, as well as game director on Call of Duty’s Zombies mode – in 2020, and was announced to have co-founded a new studio, the Sony-back Deviation Games, the following year.
However, Deviation reportedly ran into a “difficult situation” in 2023, resulting in almost 90 layoffs, and the studio eventually shut its doors last March. But just a few months later, it was reported Blundell was forming a new PlayStation first-party studio from the ashes of Deviation, with “a lot of” former Deviation employees joining him to work on an undisclosed new IP.
There’s been little additional word since then, but now Blundell has confirmed the reports in an interview with journalist Jeff Gerstmann, announcing his new team’s name in the process. “I’ve had the amazing opportunity to create a new studio within PlayStation Studios for Sony,” he revealed. “The studio is called Dark Outlaw [Games and we’ve] been working away in the shadows for a while, and when we’ve got something to talk about, we’ll step out into the light.”