Blood & Truth developer PlayStation London Studio is making a brand new PS5 IP

Sony Interactive Entertainment’s London Studio is currently staffing up for the creation of a new intellectual property.

Job overviews for two open positions (lead technical artist and lead VFX artist) both mention work on “a brand new, next-gen IP”.

Another open position, for a principal online gameplay designer, confirms the studio is working on a “new PS5 project”.

It adds: “As a 1st Party Studio we set out to produce games which show the exciting potential of the latest PlayStation hardware so it’s important you are up for experimenting and working in uncharted design territory!

“We, at London Studio, are no strangers to innovation in gaming with a rich history of working on Singstar, Eyetoy, Eyepet, Book of Spells and more recently in Virtual Reality on games like VRWorlds.”

The studio’s most recent release, Blood & Truth, was the first VR game to top the UK physical software chart following its May 2019 release.

PlayStation first announced it was working on a “next-generation VR system” designed for PS5 in February.

Sony said its new PS VR headset will feature “dramatic leaps in performance and interactivity”, and allow players to feel “an even greater sense of presence and become even more immersed in their game worlds”.

The headset, which will launch beyond 2021, will offer improved resolution, field of view tracking, and utilise new controllers.

In a follow-up article published in March, Sony revealed its next-gen VR controllers, which have an “orb” shaped design and feature adaptive triggers and haptic feedback like the PS5’s DualSense pad.

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