Comment on PlayStation to Exclusively Publish Multiplayer Game From Firewalk Studios

Sony Interactive Entertainment and ProbablyMonsters have announced a new partnership in which PlayStation will be the exclusive publishing partner for the first game from ProbablyMonsters' Firewalk Studios. Firewalk's AAA multiplayer game in development currently does not have a planned release window, nor do we have many specifics on what the game will entail (and not even whether it's targeted for both PS5 and PS4, or just Sony's newest system, given the studio's billing as a "next-generation AAA studio."). But Firewalk's Tony Hsu, Ryan Ellis, and Elena Siegman, along with Head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst, spoke with IGN about why both parties wanted to partner for this project, how the team made up of former Destiny, Halo, Apex Legends, Call of Duty, and other devs is approaching a new multiplayer game in this era, and what ProbablyMonsters' focus on building "sustainable" game studios actually means. [caption id="attachment_2503701" align="alignnone" width="720"] ProbablyMonsters, its team Firewalk Studios, and PlayStation are entering a new partnership.[/caption] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Why Firewalk and PlayStation Wanted to Work Together This project will be Firewalk's first game since the studio's founding in 2018, and both sides of the partnership have been talking since then about the potential for this new but experienced team's game. "Firewalk is an incredibly talented bunch of people and they have worked on very interesting games collectively and individually [in the past].