{"id":50700,"date":"2026-11-11T03:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/fairgame-officially-cancelled-over-3-years-after-its-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T03:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:34:46","slug":"fairgame-officially-cancelled-over-3-years-after-its-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/fairgame-officially-cancelled-over-3-years-after-its-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairgame$ Officially Cancelled Over 3 Years After Its Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/fairgame.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After its <a href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/fairgame-havens-first-game-announced-for-ps5-and-pc\">announcement years ago<\/a> and no gameplay or updates ever since, Haven Studios\u2019 <em>Fairgame$<\/em> has been cancelled. While you may think this is bad news for the Montreal-based studio, a PlayStation spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-11-10\/playstation-cancels-online-shooting-title-fairgames\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> there wouldn\u2019t be any layoffs and that it would instead serve as a support studio.<\/p>\n<p>Where it will be assigned next remains to be seen, but it\u2019s clear <em>Fairgame$<\/em> wasn\u2019t working. Its last test in particular seemingly sealed the shooter\u2019s fate, as PlayStation executives Sean Decker and John Doyle told employees in an alleged email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the test demonstrated strong operational excellence, live ops readiness and community engagement, player feedback and retention results were mixed and fell short of the goals we had set. Combined with challenging market conditions in the PVP shooter genre, we have made the difficult decision to cease development on the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Announced at the 2023 PlayStation Showcase for PS5 and PC, <em>Fairgame$<\/em> was touted as a competitive multiplayer shooter with heist elements. Players would infiltrate millionaires\u2019 properties and attempt to score big while evading rival crews. A job listing <a href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/fairgame-is-on-track-to-deliver-a-aaa-multiplayer-experience-job-listing-says\">claimed<\/a> it was \u201con track to deliver a triple-A multiplayer experience,\u201d but it faced several internal delays.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/gamingbolt.com\/fairgame-officially-cancelled-over-3-years-since-its-announcement\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After its announcement years ago and no gameplay or updates ever since, Haven Studios\u2019 Fairgame$ has been cancelled. While you may think this is bad news for the Montreal-based studio, a PlayStation spokesperson told Bloomberg there wouldn\u2019t be any layoffs and that it would instead serve as a support studio. Where it will be assigned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5023,5024,36,108,164,209,224],"class_list":["post-50700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gaming","tag-fairgame","tag-haven-studios","tag-mixtv","tag-news","tag-pc","tag-ps5","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}