Fairgames loses creative director months after studio head departure

Haven Studios has gone through some worrying changes in recent months. Back in May, it was reported that external playtests for the studio's first game, Fairgames, led to negative feedback. Then, just weeks later, Haven Studios founder, Jade Raymond, suddenly left the company, a move that caused one games industry analyst to proclaim that the game has been cancelled. The game hasn't actually been publicly cancelled yet, but it did just lose its creative director. 

Daniel Drapeau, the Game Director behind Fairgames, has left Haven Studios after four and a half years working on the project. Now Drapeau is a creative director at WB Games Montreal, the studio responsible for Gotham Knights. Sony and Haven Studios have not issued any public comment on this most recent departure and even Drapeau himself only quietly revealed the information with an update on LinkedIn.

Originally announced in 2023 as ‘Fairgame$', the multiplayer title is set to offer co-op heists with quick action-packed matches and live service elements. The game was one of at least a dozen ‘live service' titles greenlit under Jim Ryan's tenure as head of PlayStation. After Ryan departed, Sony began cancelling many of these projects, but Fairgames was one of just a handful to survive.

Fairgames is currently due to release in ‘Spring 2026' for PS5 consoles, assuming it doesn't get cancelled.

KitGuru Says: Haven Studios appears to be in a free fall at the moment. Maybe Sony will give an update on the status of Fairgames later this month, as rumour has it that a new State of Play showcase is due. 

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