Don’t Believe the Speculation About PS5’s Fairgames Getting Cancelled
Update: Michael Pachter clarifies
by Sammy Barker Yesterday, 8:30pm
Update [Sat 16th Aug 2025, 8:30pm]:
As perhaps expected, Michael Pachter has clarified that he misspoke about Fairgames’ cancellation.
As quoted by ex-IGN editor Destin Legarie, he said: “I misspoke. Said Jade was let go, and assumed it was cancelled. I have no info on the game at all. Feel free to quote this, I truly donât know.”
So, Fairgames is, at the present moment, still alive and kicking, then. Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll ever actually release.
Original Story: The web is awash with rumours about Sony pulling the plug on Fairgames.
For those of you who havenât been following this game â and, frankly, we donât blame you if you havenât â this is the anti-billionaire co-op shooter from Canadian developer Haven Studio, which was founded by Jade Raymond and purchased by PlayStation a few years ago.
Of course, Raymond has since left the team, and the project is said to be in turmoil.
The Japanese giant did pool feedback via a small-scale alpha test recently, and it was largely negative, seemingly prompting the management changes at the company.
The source of the cancellation rumours seems to stem all the way back to an episode of the Pachter Factor, featuring notorious industry analyst Michael Pachter, in which he touches on the topic of Sonyâs live service push.
âThey turned all their studios into live service developers,â he says. âBut that resulted in Concord being shut down and the developer closed, which then resulted in Jade Raymond being let go and [Fairgames] being cancelled.â
We think Pachter is just misspeaking here: it sounds like heâs associated Raymondâs departure with the projectâs cancellation, which isnât the case.
In a statement to Bloomberg when Raymond departed the developer, a spokesperson for PlayStation said itâs âcommitted to supporting Haven Studios and excited to continue the journeyâ.
Now clearly Fairgames isnât coming together as well as Sony would have liked, and it doesnât seem out of the realm of possibility that it could get cancelled eventually. But as things stand right now, at the time of writing, our understanding is that the game is still in development.
Weâll check with the platform holder, however, and share any updates if we get a response.
[source youtube.com, via reddit.com, resetera.com]
