Game News This video game studio that worked on the God of War saga and one of the most beautiful games for the PS4 is closing its doors
The massacre of 2024 continues. Today it is the turn of a former studio near Sony, which was behind the PSP works of God of War, the spin-off Daxter and The Order: 1886, to close its doors.
Ready at dawn ferme ses portes
Another name has been added to the terrible list of studios that have closed during this video game industry crisis. This time, it is a studio founded in 2003 that is closing its doors. Ready at Dawn, a California-based studio and long-time close collaborator of Sony, has just been closed by Meta, which owned it since 2020.
To be honest, the studio had already been suffering for many months. Teams suffered several waves of layoffs before Meta finally decided to close the studio permanently in order to comply with the new budget cap of Reality Labs (formerly Oculus VR), the Meta subsidiary dedicated to virtual reality development. Remaining employees are now encouraged by Meta to apply to other teams at Oculus Studios.
A great contribution to the PSP
The studio first became known with the spin-off Daxter released on PSP and PS2. Ready at Dawn then continued working on Sony’s portable console and gradually developed it further
God of War: Chains of Olympus and
God of War: The Ghost of Sparta. The studio also produced the Wii-D port“With the eyesbefore working with Sony again on the development of The Order: 1886Ready at Dawn also planned a sequel before it was bought by Meta. After this acquisition, the studio developed the two games Lonely Echo and Lonely Echo IItwo very convincing weightlessness simulations.
