PlayStation Cancels Fairgames: Haven Studios Heist Shooter Is Dead, No Layoffs

PlayStation has killed another one. Fairgames, the live service heist shooter from Haven Studios, was cancelled on November 10, three years after it was announced, Bloomberg reported. The game never even got a public gameplay showing.

The call came after a recent playtest with thousands of players. In an internal email Bloomberg reviewed, PlayStation executives Sean Decker and John Doyle wrote that the test showed strong operational work, but player feedback and retention fell short of the goals the company set, and the tough PvP shooter market did the rest.

THE HEIST THAT TOOK THREE YEARS

Haven was founded in 2021 by Jade Raymond, the producer behind the early Assassin's Creed games. Sony bought the studio in 2022, and Fairgames was revealed at the May 2023 PlayStation Showcase as a competitive heist game: rob the ultra rich, rebalance the scales. Behind the scenes the game was reworked multiple times, Raymond left the studio in 2025, and a planned re reveal under a new name never happened.

ANOTHER NAME IN THE LIVE SERVICE GRAVEYARD

Fairgames joins a graveyard that already holds Concord, which cost Sony more than $200 million by reported counts, and The Last of Us Online. Sony bet big on live service games this generation, and the retreat has been loud. That trailer above is still the most the public ever saw of the game: a slick CGI tease, and then three years of silence.

HAVEN SURVIVES. THE GAME DOES NOT.

Here is the one piece of good news, and it matters: nobody is getting laid off. A PlayStation spokesperson told Bloomberg the studio will shift its focus to collaborating with other development teams across PlayStation Studios, while also exploring new creative opportunities. Haven lives. Fairgames is done, and the search for PlayStation's next big live service hit starts over again.