In 2020, Meta purchased Ready at Dawn, a famous studio focused on virtual reality proposal, but which was also in charge of working on multiple PlayStation properties for the PSP. Now, Today, August 7, 2024, the sad news has been revealed that Ready at Dawn it has closed.
According to Android Central, Meta has cut the budget for its virtual reality divisionand this has caused the company to be forced to close a couple of studios in order to deal with the smaller amount of money available to them. Thus, Ready at Dawn has closed its doors immediately.
Instead of offering a safety net for its former employees, Meta has encouraged its employees to apply for jobs in other areas of the company’s virtual reality division.nothing concrete so far. Facebook has not yet issued a statement on the matter, and it is unknown how many people from Ready at Dawn are willing to continue working with them, or choose to find work elsewhere.
Sadly, Ready at Dawn’s closure adds to the thousands of layoffs we’ve seen in the video game industry in recent years. Let’s remember that the studio gave us titles like the Lone Echo series. However, He also worked directly with Sony on games such as Daxter, God of War: Chains of Olympusand God of War: Ghost of Sparta for the PSP as well as God of War: Origins Collection for the PlayStation 3, and The Order: 1886 for the PlayStation 4. In related news, you can learn more about NetherRealm’s layoffs here. Similarly, Humble Bundle is also suffering from heavy layoffs.
Author’s Note:
It’s a real shame that this keeps happening. The closure of studios and the layoff of their employees is a crisis that everyone seems to be aware of, but no one is doing anything about it.
Via: Android Central.
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