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Sony cancels Fairgame$: Haven Studios' PS5 and PC heist shooter is scrapped after a mixed playtest, with no layoffs

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Fairgame$ cinematic trailer still (official PlayStation Blog image, 2023): a crew member cuts through a metal fence with a glowing tool at night while a hooded teammate keeps watch.
Crédit : © Sony Interactive Entertainment / Haven Studios — PlayStation Blog


Video: “Fairgame$ - CGI Reveal Trailer | PS5 & PC Games”, official PlayStation YouTube channel, published May 24, 2023 (11:23 p.m. Paris time), 1 min 49 s. This is the 2023 reveal trailer: no new video was released with the cancellation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Jp4K02L1I

Sony Interactive Entertainment has canceled Fairgame$ (also written Fairgames), the competitive multiplayer heist game in development at its Montreal subsidiary Haven Studios, Bloomberg reported on November 10, 2026. A PlayStation spokesperson told Bloomberg there will be no job cuts and that Haven will move to support other studios within the company. Here is what is known, attributed to the reports published that day.

Why Sony stopped development

  • According to an internal email from PlayStation executives Sean Decker and John Doyle, reviewed by Bloomberg, a recent playtest with thousands of players “demonstrated strong operational excellence, live ops readiness and community engagement”, but “player feedback and retention results were mixed and fell short of the goals we had set” (quoted by Gematsu and GameSpot).
  • The same email cites “challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre”.
  • Bloomberg reports that the concept had been reworked several times over the past three years (as summarised by GameSpot and Polygon).

What Fairgame$ was

  • Announced on May 24, 2023 at the PlayStation Showcase with a CGI trailer, it was described by Haven creative director Mathieu Leduc on the PlayStation Blog as “a thrilling competitive heist game where you join an underground movement to rob the ultra-rich”.
  • It was planned for PS5 and PC. No release date had ever been set.
  • Haven Studios was founded in 2021 by Jade Raymond and acquired by Sony in 2022 (Polygon); she left the studio in 2023 (GameSpot).

What it means for players

  • The game will not be released. No purchase or pre-order of Fairgame$ is mentioned in the sources, and no refund procedure has been announced.
  • Context: The Verge and Polygon note that this follows other PlayStation live-service cancellations and the shutdown of Concord shortly after its launch, while Helldivers 2 remains a success.

Sources

  • Bloomberg, “PlayStation cancels online shooting title Fairgames”, November 10, 2026 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-10/playstation-cancels-online-shooting-title-fairgames) — paywalled, read through the reports below.
  • Gematsu, “Fairgame$ canceled”, November 10, 2026, 9:58 p.m. Paris time (https://www.gematsu.com/2026/11/fairgame-canceled).
  • GameSpot, November 10, 2026 (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-cancels-live-service-ps5-game-fairgames-but-no-layoffs/).
  • The Verge, November 10, 2026 (https://www.theverge.com/games/1031242/sony-playstation-fairgames-canceled).
  • Polygon, November 10, 2026 (https://www.polygon.com/sony-cancels-fairgames-live-service-shooter-ps5/).
  • PlayStation Blog, “Introducing Fairgame$…”, May 24, 2023 (https://blog.playstation.com/2023/05/24/introducing-fairgame-a-competitive-heist-experience-coming-to-ps5-and-pc/).
Image: still from the Fairgame$ cinematic trailer, PlayStation Blog (2023), © Sony Interactive Entertainment / Haven Studios.
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