Deviation Games comes out as a new studio.
Deviation Games comes out as a new studio.
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Deviation Games debuts as new studio working on a PlayStation game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Deviation Games debuted today as a new studio led by Dave Anthony and Jason Blundell, formerly of Call of Duty shop Treyarch.

They worked on franchises like Call of Duty: Black Ops, and they tired of working under tight controls. Anthony said, “What if we deviated?” And so they are working on a “groundbreaking new intellectual property,” Anthony said. They made the announcement today at Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.