Sony Santa Monica introduced within the cavalry to assist full God of War Ragnarok, which has now formally gone gold on PS5 and PS4. While outsourcing is comparatively commonplace amongst tentpole AAA titles, a graphic exhibiting all of the groups that contributed to the challenge is the primary time we’ve seen Bluepoint Games related to the challenge.

The Austin-based studio, formally acquired by PlayStation late final yr, is maybe finest recognized for its remake work on titles like Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus. But it truly has a reasonably long-standing affiliation with the God of War collection, having ported the unique PS2 video games to the PS3 because the God of War Collection again within the day.

Other groups who contributed to the challenge embody fellow PS Studios help crew Valkyrie Entertainment, which Sony additionally bought late final yr, in addition to long-standing companion Jetpack Interactive, who’s believed to be helping on one in all Sony’s AAA dwell service video games subsequent. Red Hot, Super Alloy, Supergenius, and Original Force spherical out the big record of contractors.

While chances are you’ll be stunned to see so many groups connected to at least one recreation, that is regular now. It takes 1000’s of staff to convey one main title to life today, and plenty of tens of millions of {dollars}. Lots of these help studios could have helped create artwork belongings, animations, and different particulars, with Sony Santa Monica after all main the manufacturing.