{"id":1150913,"date":"2026-02-08T01:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T01:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/AbXA85KAezGhfCTq4t96CY"},"modified":"2026-02-08T01:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T01:58:59","slug":"former-treyarch-studio-co-head-and-black-ops-3-director-is-heading-up-a-new-first-party-playstation-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/former-treyarch-studio-co-head-and-black-ops-3-director-is-heading-up-a-new-first-party-playstation-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Treyarch studio co-head and Black Ops 3 director is heading up a new first-party PlayStation studio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five years after leaving Treyarch, former studio co-chief and Call of Duty producer Jason Blundell is heading up a new first-party PlayStation Studio called Dark Outlaw Games.<\/p>\n

“Dark Outlaw Games have been working away in the shadows for a while, and when we’ve got something to talk about we’ll step out into the light,” Blundell said in an interview with Jeff Gerstmann<\/a>. “But the story for me is about the game, not about the studio. So the reason why we’re not doing a fanfare or shouting about it from the rooftops is, let’s get something, right?<\/p>\n

“It’s such a privilege to be able to do it with Sony as a new first-party studio. Sony doesn’t set up first-party studios all the time. To have that privilege is humbling, it’s really nice. I’m really excited.”<\/p>\n

Blundell said Dark Outlaw has been “staffing up [and] keeping it kind of low key” to this point, but declined to say anything specific about the studio’s current status, much less what it’s working on. “We’re getting the team to jell, getting the ideas clicking\u2014I’m a programmer at heart, so let’s test those assumptions: Is it working, is it working? You’re trying to hit that escape velocity.”<\/p>\n

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