Last month, reports came in that Team Ico chief, Fumito Ueda, creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, was rumoured to have left the internal Sony company – with plans to embark on personal projects once The Last Guardian was out.

And now executive producer, Yoshifusa Hayama, has also jumped ship – to join Bossa Studios to work on social networking games for the likes of Facebook.

“The future of gaming is definitely online and thanks to recent developments with Flash 11, there is no reason why a social game can no longer be as visually stunning and as compelling as the big console titles,” he said in a statement.

While it’s been confirmed that Ueda is still working on The Last Guardian – reportedly in a freelance capacity – Hayama is pretty much out of there.

The Last Guardian was initially slotted for a “late 2011” release, but has now been delayed into 2012 – and while Sony aren’t commenting on anything, it would appear that all is not well in the home of Team Ico.

Source: Eurogamer