Oculus-parent company Facebook has acquired VR developer Beat Games, and is rolling the studio into its Oculus Studios brand.<\/p>\n
Beat Games itself is set to remain an independently operated studio and continue active support for its VR rhythm slash-em-up Beat Saber<\/em> in wake of the acquisition.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are thrilled to join forces to see where this talented team takes VR gaming in the future. Beat Saber<\/em> is a perfect example of why VR is so exciting\u2014VR reimagines old genres and invents new ones,\u201d reads a post<\/a> from Oculus director of content Mike Verdu.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have only scratched the surface with Beat Saber<\/em> in terms of social features, new modes, music, and more,\u201d says Verdu. \u201cWe are thrilled to join forces to see where this talented team takes VR gaming in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n On the topic of future acquisitions, Verdu notes that Oculus is \u201cexploring many ways to accelerate VR\u201d and vaguely hints that 2020 is on track to be \u201can incredible [year] of VR game launches and announcements. We are thrilled to have Beat Games join our team,\u201d he continues. \u201cThis is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n Beat Saber<\/em>, the debut title from Beat Games, launched back in May 2018 for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows MR headsets and quickly shattered sales milestones, selling 50,000 copies in its first week and ultimately crossing 1 million sales in under a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n It has since arrived on PlayStation’s PSVR as well, and snagged a spot as an Oculus Quest launch title earlier this year. At Facebook’s Oculus Connect event a few months back, Oculus shared that Beat Saber<\/em> sold over 1 million copies through the Oculus Store, making it the very first game to do so<\/a>. <\/p>\n Looking forward, Oculus says Beat Saber<\/em> support will continue across all currently supported platforms after the acquisition but with the benefit of some extra oomph from Facebook’s resources.<\/p>\n “The story we aim to prove over time is this: An indie studio joins forces with some like-minded allies, and together they find a way to push VR to new heights,” says Verdu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oculus-parent company Facebook has acquired VR developer Beat Games, and is rolling the studio into its Oculus Studios brand. Beat Games itself is set to remain an independently operated studio and continue active support for its VR rhythm slash-em-up Beat Saber in wake of the acquisition. \u201cWe are thrilled to join forces to see where this talented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}