Out of all the first-party developers at PlayStation, Bend Studio is arguably the one company that doesn't get as much recognition as it deserves. The Oregon-based firm has been around for 32 years, even longer than the PlayStation brand itself, and yet its portfolio of games isn't really regarded that highly compared to studios like Sucker Punch, Naughty Dog, and Insomniac. Bend Studio originally got its start making puzzle video games for the Apple Newton, but during the PS1 generation, it branched out and worked on other projects, such as the Syphon Filter series. Nowadays, the company is better known for developing the 2019 zombie-slaying game Days Gone, which was divisive among critics but received positively by fans.