
Earlier today, a follow-up story to last week's PlayStation Studios cancellations started doing the rounds online, claiming that the developers of these cancelled projects — Bluepoint Games and Bend Studio — only heard the news at the same time as everyone else.
If true, the whispers painted a rather damning picture of PlayStation management — but apparently, both teams did know about the cancellations ahead of the public announcement.
That's according to the ever-reliable Jason Schreier, who broke the original news. "I've seen this story getting a lot of traction on Reddit today but it's not true," he wrote on Bluesky. "People across the org were informed before my article went out last week."
The now debunked rumour stemmed from Jeff Grubb on the latest edition of his Game Mess Mornings show (as picked up by VGC). Grubb had stated that "the two studios found out [about the cancellations] at the same time as everyone else".
Last week, in reaction to the news, we called PlayStation's live service push a "disaster of utterly insane proportions". Obviously, if these reports had turned out to be true, then it'd put the whole situation in an even more negative light.