Bend Studio celebrates 30th anniversary, wait to show you what’s next
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That sounds like a confirmation they'll be at the showcase next week 
In E3 2016 they showed Days Gone, 3 years into the PS4 gen. Talk about a slow studio, took them 8 years to make Days Gone as well, it's a miracle Sony didn't shut them down.
And then Days Gone ended up becoming one of Sony's biggest New IP's ever. And their 2nd best selling PC port. Not bad for a slow studio, who was making their first AAA console game since 2007.
Pretty excited to see what they are cooking up, very talented studio.
They have been around since day 1, they made AA games like Syphon Filter and Resistance Retribution
From wikipedia, with a Gamasutra interview as source: "full production of Days Gone commenced in early 2015 and the game's development cycle lasted for six years".
This was being their first open world game, their first home console AAA game in a lot of years and being a new IP. And they were doing it with a team smaller than the typical big open world game. Maybe a year or so over what it was the average back then for this type of game, but normal stuff.
The studio has a long story of games successful in sales and reviews, there was absolutely no reason to shut them down. Days Gone didn't have great reviews but is their best selling game by a great margin. Sony is happy with them, greenlighted them the first project they pitched after it, is working on a movie, ported it to PC and included it in the PS5 PS Plus collection that was a recap of the best PS4 games.
I'd love it to be true, a mixture of Days Gone and Syphon Filter. I think MGSV and Hitman are great sources to get additional references.
But considering that according to Schreier their current project was greenlighted in March 2021 that means barely 2 years working on it, which I assume means it's too soon to show it. I think they'll wait a couple years more to show it.
But who knows, maybe since it's their anniversary they make an exception and show a small CG concept teaser mentioning they are still in early stages of development and ask to don't expect to see the game until several years in the future.
The first Syphon Filters back then were AAA of the time for the first PS. Their portable games like Syphol Filters, Resistance Retribution or Uncharted Golden Abyss were back then some most AAA portable games.
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I remember asking John Garvin on Jaffe's show a while back if Days Gone was planned to be in the Syphon Filter universe. He confirmed that it was planned to be, I wonder now if some of those idea's are in this new title?
Wonder if it takes place in a a newly reimagined world of Syphon filter. But is a new IP/Game. That would be cool because if they ever wanted to go back to Syphon Filter the groundwork would be there.
Even if not important for the game, there's two Syphon Filter easter eggs in Day's Gone that connects the Syphon Filter series with Days Gone. This note mentioning a lot of Syphon Filter stuff:
And then in the secret ending you unlock the taser from Syphon Filter as weapon.
On top of that there are the guys with yellow anti-biological hazard protection suits, but may only be a homage:
I'd love to see the new IP linking Syphon Filter and Days Gone beyond that, if possible including both Gabe Logan and Deacon.
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