Bungie Creative Studios has joined PlayStation Studios to build the foundation and a creative team to support future first-party live service games.
Senior director, Bridget O’Neill, took to LinkedIn to firstly announce the move and her new position as the senior director at PlayStation Studios.
It’s frankly not too shocking that Sony is looking at reaping the benefits of a studio that has been in the live service market for so long. By and large, the model has been vital to Bungie’s work since the original Destiny launched in 2014.
In 2022, PlayStation bought the studio for that specific reason, after all, Sony continues to strive to make waves — and is currently failing — in the live service market. A mere year after the acquisition, Bungie faced round of layoffs, as well as eliminating 220 roles earlier this year, with 155 roles integrated into Sony itself.