Report: PlayStation Removes Mention of Convallaria Off Their Lineup of China Hero Projects in Production; Devs Accuse Execs of Mismanagement
Convallaria, a title published under PlayStation’s China Hero Project program, has mysteriously vanished over the past few years, with fans wondering whether it was cancelled. With a new development update surfacing today, the title is indeed not dead; it seems PlayStation is no longer listing the game as part of its program, according to a recent update on its China Hero Project website.
Not only that, but the game’s developers have reached out to MP1st regarding the game’s troubled development and accusations of mismanagement, and other shenanigans.
Could there be some truth to those allegations, or is this a mere coincidence?
Big Trouble in PlayStation’s China Hero Project
This past weekend, we received documents containing complaint letters sent to SIE (Sony Interactive Entertainment), outlining the ongoing progress of Loongforce’s upcoming title, Convallaria, and why it has yet to receive a release date. Details on said documents were recently published by Noisy Pixel, which, based on their information, were the same documents given to us.
To sum up everything, and why we have yet to see any substantial update on the game, be that a release date, a new trailer, or any marketing for the past few years, it’s allegedly due to the management in charge of the China Hero Project, who have apparently been stalling funding being threatened with more delays of payments, ignoring lines of communication, and making outlandish demands that included asking for tasks that had already been completed, attempting to bring an IT firm that the managment has personal aquintance with and making the studio pay for it, and even going as far as trying to hijack the project and take over completely.
Included in the documentation provided to us are email exchanges between Loongforce and Bo Bao, Director of China Game Production at Sony Interactive Entertainment. These discussions, which we translated below for clarity, appear to corroborate Loongforce’s accusations regarding delayed payments and explicit threats to have the support studio Virtuos take over the project’s development completely.
We reached out to a few sources during the course of our investigation, with one of them noting that it’s pretty “normal” to see another studio come and take over, but only for a specific part of the development, and not the entire thing, which was inferred as being out of the norm.
But the one odd piece of “evidence” (if we can call it that) that we found outside of the sent documents during our investigation is that PlayStation recently rolled out a webpage update on their China Hero Project pages, affecting web pages found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Countries in Asia and Oceania have not yet been affected by this webpage update. When you look at it, you’ll notice that projects that were previously under production and released have been removed, while those still in production or recently announced have been added to the pages. Convallaria, however, has been removed entirely from the updated regional pages.
Before anyone brings up the possibility of this being some technical issue, where the page can’t display more than eight tiles (which would be ridiculous), we did check out the latest archived page for https://www.playstation.com/en-us/china-hero-project/, which a snapshot was taken back in October 16, 2025 (a little over two months ago) and not only does it show that the webpage can support up to 13 game listed, but also shows that the page itself was updated within the last two months.
Is this a coincidence? Possibly, but the update comes at a suspicious time, when the studio has apparently been left in the dark by SIE. Could this be a mistake on their end, thinking all the phase 2 games were already out? Or perhaps it hints at them quietly dropping the project, which may explain the lack of any movement internally the last few months.
Whether the game turns out to be a major commercial success or a complete dud, it is disheartening to see a small studio like Loongforce treated so dismissively. If there is any truth to what they claim, it doesn’t make a great impression on the China Hero Project, especially for indie studios looking to be a part of it in the future.
We reached out to Sony for a statement and will update the article if we hear anything back.
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