PlayStation Cancels Online Shooting Title ‘Fairgames’

PlayStation has canceled Fairgames, the live-service shooter developed by Haven Studios, according to Bloomberg, as reported by Game Informer and other outlets. The project was announced in 2023. Haven was founded by Jade Raymond in 2021 and was acquired by Sony in 2022. Raymond left the studio in 2025, but it continued working on Fairgames.

The cancellation followed a recent test that let “thousands of players” try the game. PlayStation executives Sean Decker and John Doyle wrote in an email to employees that player feedback and retention results were mixed and fell short of the goals the company had set. “Combined with challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre, we have made the difficult decision to cease development on the game,” they wrote, according to Bloomberg.

Haven employees will not face layoffs as a result of the cancellation. Instead, the studio will shift to supporting other first-party teams under the PlayStation umbrella, Game Informer reported, citing Bloomberg. GameSpot also reported that Sony canceled the live-service PS5 game without layoffs.

The decision lands as PlayStation has pulled back from its live-service plans. The company originally aimed to launch more than 10 live-service games by March of this year, Game Informer said. Naughty Dog’s Last of Us multiplayer game was canceled, Bungie ended active development on Destiny 2, and the live-service Horizon spin-off Hunters Gathering is reportedly being overhauled after poor playtest feedback.

The reporting differs on how much detail it provides about the test and the studio’s next role. Game Informer described the test as allowing “thousands of players” to check out the game and said Haven will become a support studio. The Verge, IGN, Kotaku, TechPowerUp, VGChartz, GamingBolt and Bloomberg.com also reported the cancellation, but the details available here come mainly from Game Informer’s account of the Bloomberg report.

What is not established in the available coverage is what Haven will work on, whether any part of Fairgames technology or assets will carry over, or what happens to the broader live-service lineup. The email to employees did not set out a replacement project for the studio.