Jason Blundell, a former artistic lead on Activision Blizzard’s Name of Responsibility: Black Ops collection, has introduced that he is fashioned a brand new improvement studio known as Magic Fractal Studios. Blundell introduced the studio on a livestream with former Darkish Outlaw Video games coworker JC Farmer, a little bit over every week after the earlier studio was closed by Sony.
Little is understood about Magic Fractal past its brand and social media accounts. Darkish Outlaw Video games was equally mysterious, and closed earlier than it may even announce its first mission. All that is recognized is what Blundell has shared after the studio was shut down: Darkish Outlaw wasn’t engaged on a live-service sport. The excellence is notable, if solely as a result of live-service video games have been related to not less than two notable studio closures prior 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 Video games after its live-service sport based mostly on the God of Struggle collection was reportedly cancelled.
Magic Fractal is Blundell’s third studio after leaving Activision Blizzard in 2020. He fashioned 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 sport for PlayStation.
