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Sanzaru Games, Inc.
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Founded	November 9, 2006; 18 years ago
Headquarters	Foster City, California, U.S.
Number of locations	3 studios (2018)
Key people	Bill Spence
Products	Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time; Sonic Boom; Asgard's Wrath
Owner	Meta Platforms
Number of employees	60 (2010)
Parent	Oculus Studios
Subsidiaries	Kitazaru
Website	sanzaru.com

Sanzaru Games, Inc. is an American video game development company that was founded in Foster City, California in 2006. Sanzaru also has a satellite studio based in Ottawa, Ontario called Kitazaru, as well as an office in Dublin, California. The company name is based on the three wise monkeys (called sanzaru in Japan).

History

Their first game was Ninja Reflex, released on March 1, 2008, for PC, Nintendo DS and Wii. Their second game was a port of the High Impact Games developed PlayStation Portable game Secret Agent Clank, released on May 26, 2009, for PlayStation 2. Their third game was a high definition remastered collection of the Sly Cooper games originally developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the PlayStation 2, titled The Sly Collection and released on November 9, 2010, for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. Their fourth game was Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident, which they assisted in development with Big Fish Games on, was released on June 27, 2011, for Wii. Their fifth game is Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, which was set to be released late 2012, but was delayed to February 2013. Their latest game was revealed as a remake of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, which was included in the Spyro Reignited trilogy.

On October 10, 2019, the company released Asgard's Wrath, an epic AAA VR action adventure title on the Oculus Rift. It was critically praised by various media such as IGN, UploadVR and VRFocus.

On February 25, 2020, the company was acquired by Facebook as part of its Oculus Studios.^[4]

Games

Game title	Release date	Platform(s)
Ninja Reflex	2008	Wii, Nintendo DS, PC
Secret Agent Clank	2009	PlayStation 2
Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident	2010	Wii
The Sly Collection	2010	PlayStation 3
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time	2013	PS3, PlayStation Vita
Dark Manor^[5]		iOS
Bentley's Hackpack^[6]		PS3, PS Vita, Android, iOS
God of War Collection	2014	PS Vita
The Sly Collection		PS Vita
Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal^[7]		Nintendo 3DS
Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice^[8]	2016	Nintendo 3DS
Ripcoil		Oculus Rift
VR Sports Challenge^[9]		Oculus Rift
Tron RUN/r^[10]		PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Marvel Powers United VR	2018	Oculus Rift
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (Year of the Dragon)	2018	PS4, Xbox One
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (Year of the Dragon)	2019	PC, Nintendo Switch
Asgard's Wrath	2019	Oculus Rift
Asgard's Wrath 2	2023	Meta Quest 3

References

^ "about us". Sanzaru Games. Archived from the original on May 28, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
^ "Sanzaru Games Inc". Gamasutra. Think Services. Archived from the original on June 6, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
^ "Sanzaru Hits 60!". Sanzaru Games. November 16, 2010. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
^ "Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games". February 25, 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
^ ""Dark Manor" goes World Wide". Sanzaru Games. July 6, 2013. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
^ "Bentley's Hackpack arrives on iOS and Android!!". Sanzaru Games. January 16, 2014. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
^ "SEGA Launches New Franchise Strategy for Sonic the Hedgehog with Sonic Boom". SEGA Blog. February 6, 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
^ "Announcing Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice!". SEGA Blog. June 9, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
^ "Oculus unveils batch of new games designed for Rift VR headset". Polygon. June 11, 2015. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
^ "What little you can play of TRON Run/r is kind of cool". PC Gamer. December 10, 2015. Retrieved January 1, 2016.