How Gorilla Tag is weathering the VR winter
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The VR industry has been on edge since Meta's massive job cuts earlier this year: One exec called the layoff announcements "one of VR's darkest weeks." There's talk of a VR winter, and multiple VR studios have conducted significant layoffs of their own.
For Gorilla Tag maker Another Axiom, however, it's monkey - or monke, as they'd say - business as usual. The most popular game on Meta's Quest VR headset reached a new audience high this past weekend, when 119,000 players joined …