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'Synth Riders' Studio Confirms Major Layoffs Affecting 50 Percent of Staff

Road to VR·Scott Hayden·about 1 month ago
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Kluge Interactive, the developer behind popular VR rhythm game  Synth Riders (2018),  confirmed the studio has suffered a “major round of layoffs” earlier this year. Kluge Interactive has been busy creating games for Horizon Worlds ,  Roblox,  and bringing Synth Riders to new non-VR platforms, like Nintendo Switch. Earlier this year though, Meta announced it was pulling the plug on first-party studios amid the announcement it was shifting priorities away from ongoing Quest support for  Horizon Worlds,  making it “almost exclusively” a mobile app. As first reported by Brad Lynch (via UploadVR ), Kluge Interactive quietly suffered a round of layoffs which Lynch says was “[p]rimarily due to Meta stopping VR support entirely for Horizon Worlds .…

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