London Studio is working on a cooperative online combat game set in a fantasy London for PS5

Despite being responsible for The Getaway, during the last years London Studio, a team first-party of PlayStation Studios, has worked on different games that made use of peripherals such as PlayStation VR and PlayStation Eye. This stage of almost a decade has come to an end, as the London studio’s next project for PS5 is a little more traditional. It is an online cooperative combat game whose action is set in a fantasy London.

In a conversation with GamesIndustry, Stuart Whyte, co-director of London Studio, shows his pride in the work done during these last years in which they have supported different PlayStation technologies, including virtual and augmented reality. However, when they decided to carry out a new project, they set out to explore new paths and challenges. “We wanted to try something a little different […]Whyte says. Co-director Tara Saunders calls the as-yet-unnamed title “our most ambitious game to date,” adding that it will continue to be a game changer within its genre.

For now we have to settle for knowing that London Studio is working on an online cooperative combat game set in a fantasy London, of which we only have a artwork that you can see below after this paragraph. We can also add that the title is developed with Soho Engine, the internal engine of the London studio that has been created from scratch to get the most out of PlayStation 5. It is a set of tools fully adapted to the project at hand.

Stuart Whyte and Tara Saunders have not confirmed it, but according to their description, the new London Studio title could be a game as a service. PlayStation Studios’ goal is to release more than 10 games as a service in the next four years and this could be one of them. What Sony wins on the one hand it loses on the other, which in this case is virtual reality. London Studio is the team behind PlayStation VR Worlds and Blood & Truth, an experience that at the moment looks like it won’t be tapped into for the launch of PS VR2.