Earlier today, a follow-up story to last week's PlayStation Studios cancellations started doing the rounds online, claiming that the developers of these cancelled projects — Bluepoint Games and Bend Studio — only heard the news at the same time as everyone else.

A new report claims that another major PlayStation live service game in development at an external studio has been canceled.

There are still a couple more live-service games in progress under PlayStation, including Bungie’s Marathon and rumored games like a Horizon MMO. But if these titles are still set to launch, they will need to perform well out of the gate like Sony’s rare live-service success in Helldivers 2, or they risk being taken offline as well.

Just a week after Sony canceled two live service games, it seems another PlayStation property set to get a multiplayer spinoff has been canned. A massively multiplayer online version of PlayStation's Horizon Zero Dawn from South Korean developer NCSoft has reportedly been canceled following an internal review.

Reports noted that two live service games being developed at Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games were scrapped, and the staff found out the day of.

PlayStation was once aiming to have 12 first-party live service games all operating by 2026, with revenue from these games providing over half of Sony Interactive Entertainment's revenue. Of course, Sony's thought process back in 2022 — the majority of its games are big and increasingly expensive single-player titles that don't generate recurring revenue,