Sony acquires game developer Bluepoint Studios – IT Pro – News

Sony has acquired game developer Bluepoint Studios. The developer is known for the remakes of Demon’s Souls for PS5 and Shadow of the Colossus and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection for PS4. The developer will become part of PlayStation Studios.

from a interview IGN had with Marco Thrush, the CEO of Bluepoint Games, it appears that the studio will focus on making its own games in the future. “For our next project, we will be working on original content,” Thrush said. “That’s the next step. All our employees have that drive to develop an original game and with the support of Sony we can show what we are worth. After all, we are not developers who are only trained to make remakes and remasters.”

There have been rumors of a potential acquisition of Bluepoint Studios by Sony before. When Sony announced in June After acquiring Finnish developer Housemarque, the company’s Japanese division mistakenly posted an image on Twitter that referenced Bluepoint Studios, rather than the Finnish studio.

This is Sony’s fourth acquisition this year. In June, the company took Housemarque about, in July came there the Dutch studio Nixxes at and in September the acquisition of VR developer Firesprite announced. Other companies in this group include Naughty Dog, Guerrilla Games, Insomniac Games, and Santa Monica Studio.