The video game industry news cycle can rarely go long without producing a headline about more layoffs and closure. This site is no stranger to that too, unfortunately. This past week that fate sadly feel to many of the studios owned by Meta, the maker of the Meta Quest line of virtual reality headsets.
As a result of moving funds out of VR and into into the AI money pit, Meta laid off 10,000 employees and closed studios such as Armature, Sanzaru, and Twisted Pixel, the latter of which just launched Marvel’s Deadpool VR last November. Camouflaj, the makers of our 2024 Game of the year Batman: Arkham Shadow, are little more than a handful of employees now working on user experience tools.
Camouflaj were busy throughout 2025 patching and adding features to Batman: Arkham Shadow, but had yet to announce what they were working on next. Nathan Grayson, reporting for Aftermath, spoke to ex-Meta employees who wished to remain anonymous. They had confirmed that a sequel to Batman: Arkham Shadow was in the works but not at Camouflaj. Those duties fell to Sanzaru who were gutted after this most recent round of employee reductions.
I don’t know how many times I can rewrite that I’m sorry for everyone that has been affected by these decisions, and hope that they find employment elsewhere in what’s becoming a very tough industry. While I didn’t love Marvel’s Deadpool VR, it was still another welcome addition to the Meta Quest’s growing line of comic book based games that included the already mentioned Batman: Arkham Shadow and the superb Marvel’s Iron Man VR.
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