Contact Entertainment, the designer behind such PlayStation VR titles as Firewall Ultra and Firewall Zero Hour, has actually revealed it will be shutting down at the start of 2024.
Contact took to Facebook to share the news, stating “the absence of assistance for VR within the market” is among the primary factors for this choice.
“After practically 8 years of dealing with the most remarkable group I’ve ever have the satisfaction of belonging to, I’m unfortunate to reveal that we will be closing our business First Contact Entertainment by the end of the year,” First Contact Entertainment composed. “The absence of assistance for VR within the market has actually ultimately taken its toll.
“As a AAA VR video game designer, we are simply unable to validate the cost required gouging [sic] forward. We are a group of courageous innovators going to press brand-new innovations to its limitations. I am very happy with the group and grateful to our financiers, our partners and obviously our neighborhood of devoted and enthusiastic gamers. It’s been a wild trip, Thank you!”
Firewall software Ultra was launched in September 2023 and we delighted in parts of it, stating, “with 2 advances and 2 back, this VR follow up feels ultra ambivalent.”
“A qualified follow up to the multiplayer VR shooter initial in the majority of methods, Firewall Ultra’s uncomfortable usage of eye tracking and absence of material are a shot in the foot instead of the arm,” we included our Firewall program Ultra evaluation.
Contact Entertainment was established in 2016 by a group of ex-Starbreeze designers, and a now-deleted PlayStation Blog Germany post might have inadvertently exposed back in February 2023 that it was dealing with Solaris: Offworld Combat II.
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