According to foreign media reports, the new studio of former Assassin's Creed female producer Jade Raymond will work closely with Mark Cerny, chief systems architect of PlayStation5, on its first game. Jade Raymond is the producer of Ubisoft games such as Assassin's Creed 1, Assassin's Creed 2, Watch Dogs 1, And Cell Splinter 6: The Blacklist, and more.
Last year, after Google decided to shut down its in-house game development team, the veteran producer at Assassin's Creed and EA's Motive studios left her development lead position at Stadia. Together with 5 co-founders and about 20 former Google employees, she founded Haven Entertainment Studios, a Montreal-based company in Canada whose first game was an original IP funded by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Haven has tripled in size since its march 2021 announcement and will continue to staff its first game, a "durable, scalable, online social" aspect for PS5 and PC, according to a new studio profile by Le Devoir. The game appears to be one of 10 online service games that Sony plans to release in 2026, and the game will also reportedly be working with PS5 designer Cerny.
Raymond said: "Our goal is to further advance the technical capabilities of game consoles." Paola Jouyaux, another Haven co-founder, added: "We will have the opportunity to work with the best people in the world at Sony. This will allow us to create high-quality games. ”
In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz last year, Raymond said Haven's goal is to create a new IP that provides players with a "social platform," a new ONE "designed for fans." "The pandemic has proven that gameplay is a social glue that unites communities," she said. Especially for the younger generation, all you have to do is make friends and hang out, which is something we really want to build and design. ”
"The second thing is to think about the 'remix generation,' where the era of self-expression has just begun, we design our own Nike shoes, we read friends' blogs instead of what our professional journalists write. I think that goes further with products like TikTok. This is another thing we think about this IP core. It goes beyond user-generated content, it upgrades self-expression and mixed concepts. ”