Sony has dug up another plot in its expanding live-service graveyard, and is lowering the still-warm corpse of Haven Studios' Fairgames into the dirt. The shooter, which was revealed in 2023, has been canceled, though PlayStation says there will be no layoffs as a result of its decision to end the project.

"The studio will shift its focus to collaborating with other development teams across PlayStation Studios, while also exploring new creative opportunities," a PlayStation representative tells Bloomberg, who first reported the news.

Fairgames was revealed in a 2023 trailer which stylized the title as "Fairgame$." The trailer featured no in-game footage, but presented a stylish version of a Payday-style shooter focused on heists. But the game never materialized again. The last major news on the project came in 2025, when Haven Studios founder Jade Raymond – a veteran Ubisoft producer who'd worked on Assassins' Creed – left the company.

Bloomberg reports that Fairgames was ultimately canceled after a poor showing during a recent test session with thousands of players. "While 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," according to an internal memo.

PlayStation had apparently reworked the game multiple times since it was first revealed, and prior to the test had planned to showcase it again under a new title, according to the report.

While PlayStation once had extensive plans for live-service games, it's canceled so many of those projects that it's now difficult to keep track of them all.

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