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Sony cancels Fairgames; Haven Studios will support other PlayStation teams
Sony has canceled Fairgames, the live-service shooter from Haven Studios, The Verge reported, citing Bloomberg. That coverage says the cancellation will not result in job cuts and that Haven will support other PlayStation studios.
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Sony has canceled Fairgames, the live-service shooter in development at Haven Studios, The Verge reported on November 10, 2026, citing Bloomberg. According to that reporting, the cancellation will not result in job cuts, and Haven will support other PlayStation studios.
What was canceled
Fairgames, announced in 2023, was a heist-themed live-service game from Haven Studios, which Sony acquired in 2022. The Verge, citing Bloomberg, places the cancellation in Sony's wider pullback from some planned PlayStation live-service projects, a list that has already included cancelled games in the God of War and The Last of Us lines and the closure of Concord after its launch.
An executive memo quoted by Bloomberg, and relayed by The Verge, said the game was canceled after a recent test in which "player feedback and retention results were mixed and fell short of the goals we had set." The same memo, as published in that reporting, also cited "challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre."
What happens to Haven Studios
The Verge, again citing Bloomberg, says the cancellation "won't result in job cuts," and that Haven Studios "will now support other PlayStation studios." That is second-hand reporting of Sony's internal message, not a separate headcount filing, and it should be read that way. Haven itself is not being described in that coverage as a closed studio.
Sony has had mixed results with live-service games. Helldivers 2 is cited in the same Verge piece as a success that also reached Xbox. Other projects have been reworked or cancelled. Fairgames is the latest title to leave that slate.
The takeaway
Fairgames is not coming out. The reporting that is on the record, via Bloomberg and The Verge, says Haven Studios remains in place without job cuts tied to the cancellation, and that a test plus a tough market for PvP shooters were the reasons Sony gave internally. Unless Sony publishes a fuller statement of its own, that is the account to use.
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Key facts
- Reported
- November 10, 2026
- Studio
- Haven Studios, acquired by Sony in 2022
- Job cuts
- None, according to Bloomberg via The Verge