Sony Cancels Fairgames After Playtest Misses Its Goals, Haven Studios Stays Open

Sony has cancelled Fairgames, the online heist shooter in development at Haven Studios, after a large playtest fell short of the goals the company had set for it. Bloomberg reported the decision on November 10, 2026, and PlayStation confirmed the main points to the outlets that followed the story on November 11.

Fairgames was a player versus player shooter built around heists. Teams of players took the role of modern outlaws who broke into secure locations and stole from wealthy targets. Sony announced the game in May 2023 at a PlayStation Showcase, and it was the first and only game Haven had in development.

The playtest decided it

The decision followed a recent playtest that drew thousands of players. In an internal email dated November 10, PlayStation executives Sean Decker and John Doyle told staff that the test showed strong operational work, live service readiness and community engagement. They also said player feedback and retention were mixed and fell short of the goals set for the game.

The email pointed to a second problem. The market for player versus player shooters is crowded and hard to enter, and the executives said that pressure, combined with the test results, led them to end development. The game had no release date, no store preorders and no paid test, so no player money is tied up in the cancellation.

Haven stays open, with a new job

A PlayStation spokesperson told Bloomberg that no jobs will be cut at Haven. The studio will shift its focus to collaborating with other development teams across PlayStation Studios, while also exploring new creative opportunities. Haven stops making its own game, but the studio itself stays open in Montreal.

Jade Raymond founded Haven in March 2021. Raymond produced the early Assassin's Creed games at Ubisoft. Sony bought Haven in 2022, before the studio had shipped a game. Raymond left Haven in 2025. With Fairgames gone, Haven still has no released game to its name.

Another live service plan falls short

Fairgames joins a long list of cancelled PlayStation live service projects. Concord, another live service shooter, shut down within weeks of its launch. The Last of Us online game was also scrapped before release. Helldivers 2 stands as the clear success from the same push.

In 2022, Sony said it planned to release 10 live service games by the end of 2026. That target is now out of reach. The cancellation is the first public news about Fairgames in more than three years, and it closes the project with nothing shown beyond the original announcement.