{"id":108657,"date":"2020-02-04T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357604"},"modified":"2020-02-04T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:01:00","slug":"sony-interactive-entertainments-vr-focused-manchester-studio-to-close-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/04\/sony-interactive-entertainments-vr-focused-manchester-studio-to-close-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Interactive Entertainment&#8217;s VR-focused Manchester Studio to close down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Interactive Entertainment is shutting down its Manchester Studio, a team assembled in 2015 to develop an unannounced PlayStation VR title.<\/p>\n<p>SIE confirmed the closure in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2020-02-04-playstation-to-close-manchester-vr-studio\">a statement to GamesIndustry<\/a>, saying that the closure is \u201cpart of our efforts to improve efficiency and operational effectiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gamasutra has independently confirmed that the entirety of the studio&#8217;s staff has been laid off as part of the closure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know has&nbsp;been affected by layoffs or a studio closure, you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#bfd1dac8ccffd8ded2decccacbcdde91dcd0d280cccaddd5dadccb82f3dec6d0d9d9cc\">email Gamasutra<\/a>&nbsp;to share your story confidentially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Interactive Entertainment is shutting down its Manchester Studio, a team assembled in 2015 to develop an unannounced PlayStation VR title. SIE confirmed the closure in a statement to GamesIndustry, saying that the closure is \u201cpart of our efforts to improve efficiency and operational effectiveness.\u201d Gamasutra has independently confirmed that the entirety of the studio&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108657","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\/108657","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=108657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}