Part of today’s Summer Game Fest featured the reveal of a brand new studio, Deviation Games, formed by former Treyarch devs Dave Anthony and Jason Blundell. Furthermore, Deviation Games is partnering with PlayStation on a “groundbreaking AAA new IP,” with more details to come at a later date.

Deviation Games signs with PlayStation to develop a new original IP: https://t.co/4geOpn9ds0 pic.twitter.com/yW9YfFgKWN
? PlayStation (@PlayStation) June 10, 2021

PlayStation Studios head Hermen Hulst also heralded the partnership between Deviation Games and PlayStation Studios.

Honored to announce that PlayStation Studios is partnering with Dave Anthony, Jason Blundell and their incredibly talented team @deviationgames on a groundbreaking AAA new IP ? Hermen Hulst (@hermenhulst) June 10, 2021

Anthony serves as the CEO of Deviation Games, while Blundell takes on the role of Chief Creative Officer. The studio is founded on the ideals of deviating from the norms. They want to “make games exactly the way [they] want to make them and exactly with you [they] want to make them with.”

During the Summer Game Fest unveiling of the studio, Blundell and Anthony talked about getting a closer look at the process that PlayStation goes through with its partners, which has given them a better understanding of exactly how PlayStation Studios keeps pumping out hit after hit and winning award after award.
Lifelong friends, Anthony and Blundell’s tenure at Treya...