Yesterday, the news broke that Bluepoint Games, the first-party PlayStation studio responsible for celebrated remakes of Shadow of the Colossus and Demonâs Souls, has been shut down. According to a Sony spokesperson, the decision to shutter the developer was made âfollowing a recent business review.â Itâs terrible news however you look at it, but itâs perhaps especially painful for Bloodborne fans, as Bluepoint Games were the fan-favorite front-runners to helm a potential remake of FromSoftwareâs 2015 PlayStation 4 game.
The bad news doesnât stop there, however, as Maxime Foulquier, a solo developer from France, followed up the announcement of Bluepoint Gamesâ closure with an unfortunately timed announcement of his own. As spotted by Notebook Check, Sony served Foulquier with a cease and desist letter in March 2025, due to his announcement on X some months prior that he was working on a game called Bloodborne Top Down Arena. Several clips of the game, which was actually Foulquierâs second Bloodborne remake project, can still be found in separate posts on his X profile, but the video featured in the original announcement post has since been removed âin response to a report by the copyright owner.â
Although the letter is almost a year old at this point, Foulquier noted that heâs only revealing this information now due to his âimmenseâ disappointment with Sony following their decision to shut down Bluepoint Games. âIâd rather speak about it now, as my disappointment is immense. The disappearance of Bluepoint is a tremendous loss for the industry and for the dream of a Bloodborne remake. Why are you making such absurd decisions, Sony?â
Not all is lost, thankfully, as Foulquier noted that he started to ârepurpose all the assetsâ from Bloodborne Top Down Arena into a currently untitled, legally distinct project of his own. He also shared a snippet of the newly repurposed project in a follow-up post, referring to it as âa tribute to Bloodborne, set in a medical gothic world inspired by Paris.â
