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All the way back in 2021, a former Ubisoft producer, Jade Raymond, and PlayStation Studios came together to form Haven Studios, a new team that was set to make a new multiplayer-focused game for PlayStation, which was revealed to be a new heist shooter, Fairgames, two years later in 2023. As we've continued to wait for any sign of Fairgames' release, Raymond left the studio, it was rumored to be cancelled at one point, and now, a new report claims it has pivoted to be a new kind of game in what is seemingly the hottest genre around: extraction shooters.
According to Insider-Gaming, Fairgames has moved away from its heist foundations and is essentially morphing that into being yet another extraction shooter. It is set to have another playtest in one week's time, and documents Insider-Gaming claims to have seen describe one of the game's main modes, Cargo Heist, to be what is essentially an extraction mode.
Players are tasked with gaining access to a safe, grabbing cash, gear, and other resources, drilling into a vault, and then getting out with everything they picked up along the way. You'll have to deal with enemy teams amidst all of this, and no doubt some form of NPC enemies as well. Even without bot enemies, it all comes together to essentially be an attempt at an extraction shooter.
Now, there are other hallmarks of the genre that are missing from this description. It's unclear if you'll lose all of the loot and gear you enter a match with if you fail to make it out. If that element isn't there, then that's not really an extraction shooter, it's what Fairgames was already pitched as, a heist game where each run is about coming home with treasure, without any concern for the gear you bring with you.
It's what Creative Assembly's Hyenas would've been if it had ever actually made it to release. But with the rise in popularity of extraction shooters thanks to ARC Raiders, Marathon, and the 1.0 release of Escape From Tarkov, it's not surprising to hear that PlayStation will try to jump on yet another trend.
Especially when considering that multiplayer games have never exactly been PlayStation's forte, and this live service push started by Jim Ryan years ago has always been about hopping on a trend to try and find a way to create a cash cow Fortnite-like game. It's no surprise that Herman Hulst would continue that tradition, and it's likely that when he talked about learning from Concord's failure last year, the core of that unsaid part of that message was for PlayStation to simply be a bit smarter about which trends they try and jump on to.
It's also worth noting that the report adds that Fairgames will allegedly be a free-to-play title, and that playtesters have reportedly found the game to be "not fun." Neither of which point to Fairgames having a strong chance of being a success.
But Hulst and the rest of PlayStation's leadership have kept it around for this long, so who knows, perhaps this game will eventually see the light of day. Though if it does, then more than any other game in PlayStation's portfolio, it has a serious chance of being 'Concord 2.0.'
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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