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Updated · roadtovr.com · Jun 8
Paramount Games Studio Shifts Former Skydance VR Team to 1 Unannounced PC-Console Game
Updated
Updated · roadtovr.com · Jun 8

Paramount Games Studio Shifts Former Skydance VR Team to 1 Unannounced PC-Console Game

2 articles · Updated · roadtovr.com · Jun 8

Summary

  • Paramount Games Studio confirmed the former Skydance team behind The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is no longer making VR titles and is now building an unannounced PC and console game.
  • The shift follows Paramount and Skydance Media’s 2025 merger, which folded game operations into the new studio and combined two former Skydance teams—one from Saints & Sinners and one from Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra.
  • The move effectively ends, or at least pauses, a VR-focused run that began in 2016 and produced Archangel in 2017, Saints & Sinners in 2020, its 2022 sequel and Behemoth in 2024.
  • The pivot comes as VR funding has tightened: a reported Harry Potter Quest-exclusive project was canceled after Meta pulled backing from that game and other AAA VR efforts.

Insights

As Paramount bets on big IPs, what unannounced game is its former VR team building for PCs and consoles?
Can a studio famed for VR immersion successfully pivot, or will its unique identity be lost in the traditional games market?
With Meta’s metaverse ambitions collapsing, is the dream of AAA virtual reality now officially dead?