PlayStation announces new studio focused on ‘immersive multiplayer worlds’
- Sony announced Team LFG in 2024, a new studio based in Bellevue, Washington, developing a team-based action game within PlayStation Studios.
- Team LFG emerged as a spin-off from Bungie’s incubation project amid significant layoffs following Sony’s $3.6 billion acquisition of Bungie in 2022.
- The studio’s debut title is a multiplayer action game influenced by competitive brawlers, side-scrolling challenges, team-based strategy games, simulation experiences, and quirky frog-themed elements, all set within a whimsical, mythic sci-fantasy setting.
- Hermen Hulst, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said Team LFG “originated at Bungie” and focuses on creating immersive multiplayer worlds that foster community.
- Team LFG’s formation signals PlayStation’s continued, though reduced, focus on live service games after Bungie’s layoffs and the closure of Firewalk Studios.
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PlayStation Studios Unveils teamLFG, A Group Breaking Off From Bungie To Work On A “Frog-Type” Game
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced a new PlayStation studio named teamLFG and has hinted at what its debut game will be. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, SIE Studio Business Group CEO Herman Hulst revealed that teamLFG has joined the PlayStation Studios fold. Originally an internal team at Bungie, the developers have now broken off to form their own studio in order to work on an “ambitious incubation project.” Welcome teamLF…
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