Sony Studio Firesprite Accused of Alleged Toxic Culture in Expos
Accused of death by a thousand cuts.
It sounds like all is not well at Sony studio Firesprite, which the platform holder acquired in 2021. Despite moving into expensive new digs in its home city of Liverpool, a Eurogamer report paints an extremely grim picture of the studio, which is allegedly bleeding staff and lost its managing director Graeme Ankers suddenly last May.
The UK-based team, which worked on Horizon Call of the Mountain for PSVR2, was hit by a round of layoffs earlier this week, and it’s been alleged that its in-development Twisted Metal reboot was cancelled as a result. But while it’s supposedly working on a tentpole PlayStation franchise, rumoured to be an Until Dawn sequel, staff say it’s suffering from “death by a thousand cuts”.
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