Days Gone Writer And Director Exit Sony Bend Studio

Two of Days Gone's best-known faces have departed from Sony Bend Studios. Game director Jeff Ross revealed on Twitter that he would be leaving the studio behind the zombie post-apocalyptic sandbox, adding that he was looking forward to "new challenges" in the future:

Writer and director John Garvin went into more detail in his own Twitter farewell thread, explaining that he had been absent from Sony Bend Studios for over a year already. "Hi all, a quick announcement: I haven’t spoken about this before for various reasons, but I’m no longer with Bend Studio and haven’t been for over a year," Garvin tweeted, explaining that he had been focused on personal projects since the game was released.

Days Gone arrived in 2019 for the PS4, and since then it has received a PS5 update that adds up to 60fps with dynamic 4K resolution. It's also part of the PS Plus Collection on PS5, which includes a curated list of first-party games such as like God of War and The Last of Us Remastered along with third-party games like Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Monster Hunter: World.

In GameSpot's Days Gone review, critic Kallie Plagge said, "Riding a souped-up motorcycle through the world and taking out zombie nests and hordes is satisfying in the way that completing open-world checklists often is, but by the end, you're left to wonder what the point of it all was."