The Canadian developer Jade Raymond has made a name for herself as a producer of Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed II, and Watch Dogs. With her own studio Haven, she was meant to help strengthen Sony’s service offerings. But now she is leaving her position.
Jade Raymond leaves Haven: As the well-connected industry insider Jason Schreier reports on bloomberg.com, Jade Raymond has left her studio. The PlayStation leadership does not provide a reason. However, the leadership change occurs just a few weeks after an external test of “Fairgame$”, an online shooter that the studio is developing exclusively for Sony.
According to Schreier, some people in Haven’s environment were apparently concerned about how the game was received during the test. Given Sony’s recent service flop Concord, the cancellation of The Last of Us Online, and the still missing hype for Bungie’s Marathon, this likely did not sit well with those responsible at Sony if true.
Ultimately, the aim was to significantly strengthen the service games segment for PlayStation, which was part of the reason for acquiring Jade Raymond’s Haven studio and integrating it into the PlayStation family.
The announcement trailer for Fairgame$:
Shift to 2026?!
What kind of game is “Fairgame$”? Sony describes the online shooter as a “heist game” in which you join an underground movement of modern-day Robin Hoods to rob the super-rich and create a new balance.
The game jumps on the extraction shooter trend, as you also need to successfully escape with your stolen loot. According to the insider report, the game was initially supposed to release in fall 2025 but has now likely been pushed to spring 2026.
What should you know about Jade Raymond? The producer has been in the industry for a long time and has worked for companies such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft. In addition to Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs, her resume includes Star Wars: Battlefront II, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, and The Sims Online.
However, in recent years, Raymond has not had much luck with her projects. In 2019, she joined Google’s gaming division to develop exclusive games for Stadia, but the division was closed in 2021 without a strong release.
Shortly thereafter, she founded her own studio, Haven, and here too, she leaves the company before a single game is released. By the way, Raymond has not commented on her departure yet.
Whether Fairgame$ can still become a good game remains to be seen. Another shooter on which Sony is currently pinning its service hopes is Marathon. Our shooter expert Dariusz Müller finds the game particularly interesting due to an innovative idea: Many extraction shooters bore me, but an innovative idea from Marathon even piques my curiosity
