Sony are rebooting their live service Horizon game as a more traditional co-op affair, claim sources, with a proper Horizon Forbidden West sequel still years away

Sony are rebooting their live service Horizon game as a more traditional co-op affair, claim sources, with a proper Horizon Forbidden West sequel still years away Guerrilla now have "through December" to impress the bosses Horizon Hunters Gathering, the live service multiplayer spin-off for PlayStation's post-apocalyptic Horizon series, is being rebooted as a smaller and more traditional co-op experience with a story mode, according to anonymous insiders. In the process, we're told, several of the project's staff are being reassigned within Sony's gamedev empire, even as a small team of Guerrilla Games work on the next "proper" singleplayer Horizon game. Set after the events of 2022's Horizon Forbidden West, it was announced with an episodic narrative component, a wave-based Machine Incursion survival mode, and a roguelite experience called Cauldron Descent. In June, PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino declared that "we believe that live-service games are content that attracts users on a global level, so we want to continue to revitalize the market through both first-party and third-party content." That's despite several years of setbacks, including the cancellation of Concord mere months after launch, and the abandoning of live service spin-offs for The Last Of Us, Spider-Man, and God Of War alongside an untitled project cancellation at Days Gone devs Sony Bend.