{"id":885900,"date":"2026-01-18T04:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/more-ubisoft-layoffs-meta-shuts-down-vr-studios-kurt-lucy-gotcha-covered\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:12:12","slug":"more-ubisoft-layoffs-meta-shuts-down-vr-studios-kurt-lucy-gotcha-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/more-ubisoft-layoffs-meta-shuts-down-vr-studios-kurt-lucy-gotcha-covered\/","title":{"rendered":"More Ubisoft Layoffs + Meta Shuts Down VR Studios | Kurt &#038; Lucy Gotcha Covered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<article itemscope>\n<section>\n<p>This week Kurt and Lucy gotcha covered with their thoughts on Meta shutting down 3 VR Studios, Ubisoft Layoffs at Massive Entertainment, what games to check out from the Steam Detective Fest sale, and more.<\/p>\n<p>By <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/profile\/mixedbizness\/\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n    Lucy James<br \/>\n  <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucyjamesgames\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Twitter: @lucyjamesgames\"><i><\/i><\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/profile\/jeanluc\/\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n    Jean-Luc Seipke<br \/>\n  <\/a><\/span>, and <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/profile\/kurt_indovina\/\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n    Kurt Indovina<br \/>\n  <\/a><\/span> on <time datetime=\"2026-01-17T09:00:00-0800\">January 17, 2026 at 9:00AM PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Email your letters to <span \n                data-original-string='2Kp86ryixDeBhSJ1JV11qg==7f4yGsccSnZJH9nweHrIULSZ8RFuGBMECvUvv\/WT3WMwgA='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>go<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***********<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">******<\/span>ot.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out the audio version:<\/p>\n<p>Spotify: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4S5mfmLES0ubhj5xcDZJni<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed: https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/6752166\/episodes\/feed<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<form name=\"upvote\" method=\"post\" action=\"\/vote\/\" data-guid=\"2300-6466653\">\n<li><label for=\"upvote__website_url\">Leave Blank<\/label><\/li>\n<\/form>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/#comments-block-33644239\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i><\/i>      View Comments (0)<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/videos\/more-ubisoft-layoffs-meta-shuts-down-vr-studios-kurt-lucy-gotcha-covered\/2300-6466653\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Leigha Roberie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Kurt and Lucy gotcha covered with their thoughts on Meta shutting down 3 VR Studios, Ubisoft Layoffs at Massive Entertainment, what games to check out from the Steam Detective Fest sale, and more. By Lucy James , Jean-Luc Seipke , and Kurt Indovina on January 17, 2026 at 9:00AM PST Email your letters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1798,27291,27257],"tags":[5962,5849],"class_list":{"0":"post-885900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-layoffs","9":"category-ubisoft","10":"tag-layoffs","11":"tag-ubisoft"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}