Its CEO explains that the VR market stays a difficult house.
Vertigo Video games is closing down Vertigo Studios Amsterdam. In an announcement posted on X, firm CEO Richard Stitselaar defined that the “VR market stays a difficult house” and that it has made the tough determination “after cautious consideration.” The Amsterdam studio was founded as Pressure Area Leisure again in 2015 earlier than it joined Vertigo Video games in 2021. Vertigo is a part of the Embracer Group, which had gone via extreme monetary points up to now few years. In consequence, it laid off hundreds of workers, sold one in every of its key properties (Gearbox Leisure) at a fire-sale worth and introduced its split into three completely different publicly listed firms.
It is not clear what is going to occur to Vertigo Studios Rotterdam. The corporate has two workplaces within the Netherlands, one in Amsterdam and one in Rotterdam, and employs 150 workers total. Vertigo Studios Amsterdam was based by the identical individuals who based Guerrilla Video games, the developer behind Horizon Zero Dawn. The Rotterdam studio, in the meantime, labored on the VR zombie survival franchise Arizona Sunshine. Vertigo’s different digital actuality video games embrace Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow and Star Trek: Bridge Crew.
