Jason Blundell, a former artistic lead on Activision Blizzard’s Name of Responsibility: Black Ops collection, has introduced that he is shaped a brand new growth studio known as Magic Fractal Studios. Blundell introduced the studio on a livestream with former Darkish Outlaw Video games coworker JC Farmer, a bit of over per week after the earlier studio was closed by Sony.
Little is understood about Magic Fractal past its emblem and social media accounts. Darkish Outlaw Video games was equally mysterious, and closed earlier than it may even announce its first undertaking. All that is recognized is what Blundell has shared after the studio was shut down: Darkish Outlaw wasn’t working on a live-service game. The excellence is notable, if solely as a result of live-service video games have been related to at the very least two notable studio closures up to now. Sony shut down Firewalk Studios in October 2024, not lengthy after its live-service shooter Harmony was launched, and in February 2026, closed Bluepoint Games after its live-service recreation primarily based on the God of Battle collection was reportedly cancelled.
Magic Fractal is Blundell’s third studio after leaving Activision Blizzard in 2020. He shaped Darkish Outlaw Video games with Sony’s backing in March 2025. Earlier than that, he led Deviation Video games, which was closed in 2024 and was reportedly additionally engaged on a recreation for PlayStation.
