Sony Acquires Persistence and Playroom Developer Firesprite

Sony has been expanding its first-party developers quite a bit this year. From Returnal developer Housemarque to PC port studio Nixxes, PlayStation’s stable of studios has been growing on a few fronts. Well, it did again this morning, as the company has acquired Persistence developer Firesprite. News of this came from a post on the PlayStation Blog, which included a statement from managing director and founder Graeme Ankers about the company’s history with PlayStation, including visual work on The Playroom, a pack-in with the PlayStation 4, as well as Run Sackboy! Run, an endless runner in the LittleBigPlanet series. The studio also has a fair bit of experience working in VR with The … Continue reading Sony Acquires Persistence and Playroom Developer Firesprite