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Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games (Asgard’s Wrath, Marvel Powers United VR, Ripcoil etc)

modiz

modiz

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Welcoming Sanzaru Games to Facebook | Meta Quest Blog

VR is home to many remarkable developers doing incredible work, pioneering a whole new language of game design, and pushing themselves to always achieve more. Sanzaru Games was one of the earliest development houses to take these steps, and, just a few months ago, we saw the state of VR gaming...
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Why Sanzaru Games?
Sanzaru is a veteran game developer—having shipped games to multiple platforms in the past—as well as a VR pioneer: They've created four titles for the Oculus platform since 2016, when they were the first developer to partner with the Oculus Studios team (Ripcoil, VR Sports Challenge, MARVEL Powers United VR, Asgard's Wrath). With Facebook's latest advancements in VR technology, Sanzaru can readily explore a future of rich and immersive original VR content.


How will Sanzaru maintain its culture as they become part of Facebook?
A studio's culture is a crucial part of its success, and that's clearly been true for Sanzaru. It's an aspect of the company we admire and intend to maintain. They will continue to build amazing VR experiences as an independent studio operating out of their current offices in the US and Canada, with the full support of Facebook and the passionate Oculus Studios team behind them.
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What will Sanzaru be working on as part of Oculus Studios?
Asgard's Wrath was a great success and we've learned a lot from its development and launch, but we have nothing to announce about future projects at this time.


Will they be developing for Quest or the Rift Platform?
We're not ready to talk about future projects. Sanzaru has exciting plans for future VR titles and we hope to bring those experiences to as many people as possible.
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Is everyone at Sanzaru moving over to Facebook?
We can confirm that the vast majority of Sanzaru will be joining the Oculus Studios team.

Do you plan to acquire other studios? What else are you doing to accelerate VR?
We're exploring many ways to accelerate VR, and 2020 is going to be an incredible year for VR game launches and announcements. We are thrilled to have Sanzaru joining our team. This is just one of the many amazing VR announcements we have in store this year.
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Diarrhea Day-Lewis

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Yikes. Good for them I guess. Sucks they won't make sky now. Idk what happened to the IP. Seemed like the last one was good ( I loved it) and there was a movie planned. Oh well
 
DarthBuzzard

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Asgard's Wrath is Sanzaru's best work so I'm not surprised.

At some point, I'd really really like to see Oculus open up their store to other headsets, as unlikely as that will ever be.
 

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Not really surprised, most of their games as of late have been for Oculus.

Sorry, I mean, can't believe the death of Sonic Boom games.
 
IIFloodyII

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Oct 26, 2017
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Was really hoping they'd get another crack at Sly too, but never expected they would. Super talented Studio though and I'm sure they'll do some great stuff.
 
Bear and bird

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Wow. Can't say I'm stoked about Facebook scooping them up, but at the same time I'm curious to see what their endgame is.

Same goes for Amazon and Google for that matter.
 
Garlador

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Between his movie getting canned, the TV series in limbo, and the people making his games bought out, I'll be shocked if we see my favorite video game thief show up anywhere anytime soon.
 
ghostcrew

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No great surprise. They've worked very closely with Oculus and their last game, Asgard's Wrath (I think?) was absolutely massive for Oculus/Facebook. Bet they made a chunk of change.
 

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Leflus said:
Wow. Can't say I'm stoked about Facebook scooping them up, but at the same time I'm curious to see what their endgame is.

Same goes for Amazon and Google for that matter.
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For Facebook it's pretty much building a first party lineup for their Oculus platform. Like they're the heaviest invested in the platform and you can see that when majority of the notable big budget VR games are exclusive to Oculus.

Like the new Medal of Honor coming this year.
 
RROCKMAN

RROCKMAN

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Oct 25, 2017
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Always hated Sanzaru games

"Oh we love sly"

Then make a time travel caper that not only walks back a characters progression, but misses the chance to have Sly work with his dad.


And then ends that game on a cliffhanger
 
TheUnseenTheUnheard

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Didn't they also aquire the studio behind Beat Saber?

I'm honestly impressed that Facebook is staying so committed to VR.
 

Wowzors

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Great for sanzaru but to be honest this sucks. I hate the way Oculus locks their games behind their products exclusively.
 
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