Firewall Ultra developer First Contact Leisure has shut down after eight years. The studio cites the final lack of digital actuality assist within the video video games trade as the primary purpose.
In a Facebook post earlier than Christmas, First Contact Leisure stated that it might shut its doorways by the top of 2023. “The dearth of assist for VR inside the trade has ultimately taken its toll,” the studio stated. “As a AAA VR recreation developer, we’re simply not capable of justify the expense wanted gouging ahead. We’re a staff of fearless innovators keen to push new applied sciences to its limits.”
First Contact Leisure developed 2018’s Firewall Zero Hour for PlayStation VR and 2023’s Firewall Ultra for PlayStation VR2. There was no phrase on whether or not both recreation shall be pulled from the PlayStation Retailer or if their servers shall be closing as effectively.
This wasn’t the one studio to shut attributable to monetary causes in 2023. Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew developer Mimimi shut down after 15 years attributable to “elevated monetary stress and stage of threat.”
Firewall Zero Hour was effectively acquired, incomes a 79 on Metacritic. Firewall Ultra acquired combined critiques, incomes a 61 on Metacritic.