Shadow of the Colossus Director Fumito Ueda Laments Bluepoint Games Closure

Earlier successful 2026, Sony unopen down Bluepoint Games, the workplace down the fantastic Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes. In an interrogation with IGN, Fumito Ueda, the archetypal creator of Shadow of the Colossus, expressed his sadness astatine Bluepoint's demise, saying he'd hoped to enactment with the developer astatine slightest erstwhile more.

Ueda had collaborated with Bluepoint a fig of times, including connected 2011's The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection and the aforementioned 2018 Shadow of the Colossus remake. “So obviously, we had nary heads-up,” Ueda said of Bluepoint's closure. “We're not straight successful narration with immoderate project, truthful I heard astir it astatine the aforesaid clip you guys astir apt did successful the news, and it was disappointing and bittersweet to hear. I would person hoped that possibly successful the aboriginal determination could beryllium a accidental to enactment with them connected something. So yeah, it's precise bittersweet to perceive the news.”

Ueda is already hard astatine enactment connected his upcoming project, gen ATLAS, a sci-fi escapade starring elephantine robots successful a determination distant from the phantasy settings the legendary developer is known for. But it’s intriguing to deliberation astir what different task helium could person worked with Bluepoint on. So, naturally, I asked precisely that.

“That would beryllium hard to answer,” Ueda explained. “I mean, possibly I guess, arsenic we cognize however Bluepoint operated, is that they enactment connected truly bully remakes, right? So it would beryllium possibly thing [like that]. But yeah, it's conscionable bittersweet that they're nary longer around.”

“Maybe Ico?” I asked. “Maybe Ico,” helium replied with a smile.

The remake of Shadow of the Colossus was arsenic bully a modern mentation of that masterpiece arsenic we could ever person dreamed of getting backmost successful 2018, truthful reasoning astir what could person been done with Ico is simply a tantalising imaginable indeed. Sadly, this volition evidently ne'er happen, surely not nether Bluepoint, which, arsenic I wrote earlier this year, is yet different illustration of a PlayStation acquisition fearfulness story.

Before its shutdown, Bluepoint spent respective years processing an unannounced live-service God of War title. After Sony canceled that task successful aboriginal 2025, the workplace spent their last months pitching assorted caller concepts, including a Ghost of Tsushima spinoff, a Bloodborne remaster, and a renewed Shadow of the Colossus remake. There was nary connection connected Ico, however.

Still, we person caller Fumito Ueda games to look guardant to, arsenic gen ATLAS received its afloat uncover astatine this year’s Summer Game Fest. The debut crippled from The Last Guardian director’s caller studio, genDESIGN, volition beryllium the archetypal clip 1 of his releases has not been a PlayStation exclusive, aft entering a publishing woody with Epic.

Stay tuned for much from my interrogation with Fumito Ueda, arsenic we uncover everything we learned astir gen ATLAS, including its themes, gameplay, and overmuch more.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.