Meta has shut down three of Oculus Studios’ internal developers, new reporting has revealed. Twisted Pixel Games, Sanzaru Games, and Armature Studio have all been impacted.<\/p>\n
Outlets suchs as The New York Times<\/a> indicated that cuts were coming to Meta’s Reality Labs business, which encompasses first-party VR game development. On Tuesday, developers from the three aforementioned studios posted on X<\/a> and other social media websites, indicating that they had lost their jobs. <\/p>\n UploadVR<\/a> confirmed that the entirety of Twisted Pixel Games, Sanzaru Games, and Armature Studios were impacted as part of this round of Meta layoffs. In a statement to Polygon<\/a>, Meta’s Tracy Clayton says these cuts were made so the company could focus on Wearables like its Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. <\/p>\n It’s a significant gutting that massively reduces Meta’s AAA first-party development capabilities for its Quest headsets. All three studios shut down today are also quite well known, and had storied histories prior their their acquisitions by Meta.<\/p>\n Twisted Pixel Games initially gained fame thanks to Xbox Live Arcade titles like ‘Splosion Man and Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley. It had worked on VR games for the past decade, just releasing Marvel’s Deadpool VR<\/a> in November 2025.<\/p>\n Sanzaru Games was the studio behind Asgard’s Wrath 2, which was a free pack-in title for the Meta Quest 3. Before that, it worked on the original Asgard’s Wrath in VR and some Sony 3D platformer spin-offs like Secret Agent Clank and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.<\/p>\n