Sony is so pleased with work done by external developer Firewalk Studios on an as-yet unannounced game that it has decided to acquire the development studio part and parcel with its in-progress game. We don't know much about Firewalk, which was founded in 2018, but we do know that it was working on some kind of live service game—you know, your eternal games, your Destinys and all that.
Sony Interactive Entertainment had previously locked down Firewalk's debut title for themselves, an exclusive multiplayer game of some kind. That was in 2021, and two years later Sony apparently likes what it sees so much that it has decided to nip in the bud any question of Firewalk's future titles escaping their first-party shield. Firewalk will be the 20th development team at PlayStation Studios.
