Live service casualties continue to pile up in 2025 as another PS5, PS4 multiplayer game is scheduled to be sunset. Released on last-gen platforms in 2019 and on current-gen platforms in 2021, Monster ...

When Phoenix Labs launched the co-op monster-hunting game Dauntless, it wasn’t alone. It had the virtually unlimited server capacity of Google Cloud behind it. That was important because Dauntless was ...

When Phoenix Labs set out to develop Dauntless back in 2015, it wanted players to be able to play together no matter what platform they were on. It knew something like that was unusual in the industry ...

Alex Co has been writing about games for 15 years and running, and is a huge fan of online shooters and anything horror related. Phoenix Labs faces layoffs, hinting at possible studio closure.

One of Phoenix Labs' studio pillars is that "we bring players together through deep multiplayer games." It's the first thing on our website, and it is at the beginning of every internal studio ...