PlayStation has reportedly cancelled Fairgames, the online heist shooter it first showed for PS5 in 2023. The decision is said to have followed a recent playtest, and Haven Studios, the team making it, is not being shut down.
Fairgames was meant to be a live-service game, which means a title built to keep earning through seasons and updates rather than a single purchase. It never had a firm release date, so nobody could pre-order it and nothing is being withdrawn from sale. If you were waiting for a new PS5 team shooter, this one is off the list.
Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported the cancellation on 10 November, with part of an executive memo. It says player feedback and retention results were “mixed and fell short of the goals we had set”, and points to tough market conditions for PvP shooters. No job cuts come with it, and Haven will now work with other PlayStation studios. PlayStation has not publicly commented.
Sony bought Haven in 2022, and the studio has had a rough stretch since. Founder Jade Raymond left the studio she started, and the game’s director followed later. Earlier cancellation talk was brushed off by a PlayStation spokesperson, who said the company was still behind the game, so this reverses that public line.
Fairgames is not the first casualty of Sony’s online push. Live-service games based on two of its biggest franchises were dropped before release, and Concord was pulled soon after it flopped. Helldivers 2 is the success, and it is on Xbox as well. Marathon, the Bungie shooter that arrived in 2026, is still finding its feet and gets two new modes in December.
A Horizon online spinoff is also in the works, though Sony restarted its development recently.
