PlayStation is cancelling Fairgames, the online heist shooter from Haven Studios, according to a Bloomberg report published today by Jason Schreier. PlayStation told Bloomberg that no jobs will be cut as a result of the cancellation, and that Haven will instead support other games within PlayStation Studios. Sony has not yet published an announcement of its own.
Why this time is different
If this headline sounds familiar, it should. In August 2025, analyst Michael Pachter said on his show that Fairgames had been cancelled in the wake of Jade Raymond’s departure — then retracted it within days, admitting: “I misspoke. I have no info on the game at all.” The game stayed in development. It was still being playtested this fall under the codename Project Espresso, and Sony filed a “Break In” trademark in May that set off rebrand speculation — a connection Sony never confirmed.
This report is different in kind. Schreier is the industry’s most reliable reporter on exactly this kind of story, and PlayStation is on the record about the aftermath — companies don’t brief reporters on what a studio does next after a cancellation that isn’t happening.
A short, troubled life
Haven was founded in Montreal in 2021 by Jade Raymond and acquired by Sony in 2022, as a flagship of PlayStation’s live-service push. Fairgame$ — the stylized name it was announced under — was revealed at the May 2023 PlayStation Showcase: a competitive heist game for PS5 and PC where crews break into forbidden locations, rob the ultra-rich and fight rival crews doing the same. After that reveal trailer, the game was never shown publicly again.
The warning signs piled up in silence. Bloomberg reported in May 2025 that Raymond had left the studio she founded, weeks after an external test raised concerns about the game’s progress and reception; further reports claimed a pre-alpha build was received even worse than Concord’s had been. Game director Daniel Drapeau also departed in 2025, landing at WB Games Montreal.
The live-service bill comes due
Fairgames was a centerpiece of Sony’s plan to flood PlayStation with live-service games — a slate that has mostly collapsed. Concord launched in 2024 and was shut down within weeks, its studio closed soon after. The Last of Us Online was cancelled at Naughty Dog before it ever launched. Fairgames outlived nearly all of them without ever shipping — and now joins them.
The one piece of genuinely good news: Haven survives. The Montreal studio — some 250 people — keeps its jobs and shifts to supporting other PlayStation Studios projects, per PlayStation’s comment to Bloomberg. If Sony issues its own statement on the cancellation, we’ll update this story.
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Source: Bloomberg and the official Fairgame$ announcement on the PlayStation Blog.
