Armature Studio

After completing Metroid Prime 3: Corruption in 2007, game director Mark Pacini, art director Todd Keller, and principal technology engineer Jack Mathews left Nintendo subsidiary Retro Studios in April 2008, and founded Armature that September.^[2] Armature's first work was porting Metal Gear Solid HD Collection to the PlayStation Vita in 2012.^[3] In April 2013, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate would be developed by Armature as their first new work and released for both the PlayStation Vita and the Nintendo 3DS on October 25, 2013.^[2] Armature's third work was the PlayStation Vita port of Injustice: Gods Among Us.^[4]

The studio was set to handle porting Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night to the PlayStation Vita and Wii U. This included porting Unreal Engine 4 to both platforms, as they were not officially supported by the engine's developer, Epic Games.^[5] Armature would have then made their engine code available to licensed PS Vita and Wii U developers after Bloodstained finished.^[6] However, the game would be cancelled on both platforms for various reasons as its development extended to 2019.^[7][8]

In October 2015, Armature announced its first original intellectual property, Dead Star, a space-themed multiplayer online multidirectional shooter.^[9] It was released on April 5, 2016, for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4, but online functionality was disabled on November 1, 2016, and the game is no longer available for purchase.^[10]

Armature then went on to work with Epic Games in providing development support for Fortnite,^[11] and made three games for virtual reality headsets, with Fail Factory for the Gear VR^[12], Sports Scramble for the Oculus Quest,^[13] and Resident Evil 4 VR for the Oculus Quest 2.

In October 2022, Armature was acquired by Meta Platforms.^[14][15] In January 2026, the studio was shut down by Meta as a result of layoffs at Reality Labs, with sibling studios Sanzaru Games and Twisted Pixel Games also shuttered.