Against the backdrop of a broader shuffling of its Reality Labs division, Meta is reportedly closing Armature Studio, Twisted Pixel, and Sanzaru Games, three studios that Meta had previously acquired. The studios were behind some of the company’s biggest first-party VR games, including Deadpool VR, Asgard’s Wrath, and the Resident Evil 4 Quest port. According to reports …

The following studios being shut down: Sanzaru (Asgard’s Wrath series), Twisted Pixel (Deadpool VR), Armature (RE4 Quest VR port)

Meta acquisitions have proven to be a death sentence for so many great VR game developers already before, most notably Ready at Dawn.

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Hopefully the Deadpool devs go on to make their own games. It’s a great game and it and Batman make me feel a bit sad moving to Steam Frame when that gets released since they are locked to Meta unless someone makes an emulator.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Might be good if the laid off staff finds jobs in other VR studios that are not Occulus exclusive.

    • 73ms@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I think AR/XR might be the more viable path if not wanting to go flat since all the big tech companies are more focused on that now. Skills would transfer well too and they’ll still be very much VR adjacent. Kinda surprised Meta isn’t just putting these studios to work on that but they probably want to spend on AI. I guess the one bright spot for VR specifically is Valve planning to release their new headset.