Business vet Jade Raymond has stepped away from Haven Studios, the outfit she based in 2021.
A Haven Studios consultant confirmed the departure following the preliminary Bloomberg report on the management change, nonetheless each the corporate’s assertion and inner information of the departure reportedly got here with out context as to why Raymond was shifting on.
“Jade Raymond has been an unimaginable associate and visionary power in founding Haven Studios,” reads that assertion supplied to Bloomberg. “We’re deeply grateful for her management and contributions, and we want her all the perfect in her subsequent chapter.”
In addition they famous the studio will “proceed the journey” beneath new management in co-leads Marie-Eve Danis and Pierre-François Sapinski.
Although the official assertion makes no point out of the explanation for Raymond’s departure, sources talking to Bloomberg counsel that early reception of the in-development undertaking could have performed a task. Builders near the matter informed the publication that PlayStation management didn’t share a purpose for her departure in any inner communications despatched to the studio. Nevertheless these sources inform the publication that the shift comes weeks after Fairgames noticed less-than-favorable suggestions following an exterior testing spherical, elevating considerations inside some builders inside the staff.
Raymond beforehand labored as a producer and government producer on early Murderer’s Creed video games (and the unique Watch Canine) at Ubisoft earlier than shifting on to EA, Google Stadia, and ultimately Haven. This is not her first high-profile departure from a studio she co-founded, as she moved on from EA Motive in 2018 (after co-founding it in 2015).
Haven Studios and Sony’s reside service plans
Fairgames was introduced in 2023, and stands as one of many few tasks nonetheless in growth from Sony’s slate of reside service tasks. Whereas Helldivers II has been a excessive level for the initiative, different tasks have been canceled (like Naughty Canine’s proposed shooter primarily based on The Final of Us sequence), and a few have seen the sunshine of day (like Harmony), albeit not for lengthy.
Haven Studios’ first undertaking is pitched as a “recent, fashionable tackle the heist style,” the place gamers “be part of an underground motion to rob the ultra-rich and rebalance the scales.” There isn’t any official launch date for the sport.
