{"id":125808,"date":"2022-07-12T10:01:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125808"},"modified":"2022-07-12T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:01:38","slug":"sony-acquires-haven-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/125808-sony-acquires-haven-studios","title":{"rendered":"Sony acquires Haven Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has confirmed in a Tweet that its deal to acquire Haven Studios has been sealed.<\/p>\n<p>While Haven is a new studio with no games to its name, it is still a valuable purchase for two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The first is its impressive cast of developers, who have worked on titles and franchises such as Assassin&#8217;s Creed, Watch Dogs, and Rainbow Six: Siege.<\/p>\n<p>The other is the unannounced multiplayer IP the studio was working on, which aligns with Sony&#8217;s interest in exploring live service games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s official! The agreement to acquire Haven has closed. Welcome to the PlayStation Studios family, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HavenStudiosInc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HavenStudiosInc<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rLFjsRYWdy\">pic.twitter.com\/rLFjsRYWdy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PlayStation (@PlayStation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStation\/status\/1546480523433885696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The studio is also working on a new, unannounced multiplayer IP, which explains the acquisition as Sony has expressed an interest in exploring live service games.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions surrounding the deal began in March, and PlayStation will now have a presence in Canada &#8211; one of the world&#8217;s most successful games development countries.<\/p>\n<p>Sony also recently acquired Bungie, the creators of Destiny and Halo, so the company intends to follow through on its live-service goals.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/125804-red-dead-redemption-2-ps5-and-xbox-series-remaster-has-been-shelved\">Red Dead Redemption 2 PS5 and Xbox Series remaster has been shelved<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has confirmed the acquisition of another game studio. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":125809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[26363,71],"class_list":["post-125808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-haven","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}