Sony Visual Arts Studios announced layoffs and helped develop games such as "Last Survivor 1"

CTOnews.com, October 23 (Xinhua)-- Sony Visual Arts Studios, which helped develop games such as Survivor 1, recently announced a new round of layoffs, and many studio employees updated their job changes on their LinkedIn pages.

After inquiry, CTOnews.com learned that Visual Arts is a small studio under Sony SIE, which is mainly responsible for helping Sony other studio game works of animation or art development, in addition to "Last Survivor 1", this studio has been involved in assisting naughty dogs in the production of "mysterious Sea", "God of War" and other first-party games.

Icons for ▲ Visual Arts Studio

A screenshot of the game Survivor 1, which ▲ Sony Visual Arts Studios helped develop, includes a senior checkpoint designer, Daniel Bellemare, and senior technology hiring manager Matt Barney, who were fired during the layoffs. This is the third large-scale layoff of Sony SIE this year, after several employees were laid off in May and early October.

▲ Picture Source Daniel Bellemare posted a post on the X platform: "Sony PlayStation studios began to lay off staff due to the failure of the PC version."