Today’s been a busy day for Mark Zuckerberg; following the announcement thatMicrosoft’s Mixer would be shutteringin a migration to Facebook Gaming, the beleaguered tech company announced another major acquisition. Starting today, developers Ready at Dawn – creators ofThe Order: 1886,Daxter, and the handheldGod of Wartitles – will now be owned by Facebook.

Revealed ina blog post moments ago, Facebook revealed that Ready at Dawn would be making the transition onto the broader Facebook team. The move isn’t entirely a surprise – over the past three years, Ready At Dawn has solely focused on a collection of games for Oculus Rift, includingLone Echo,Echo Arena,Echo Combatand the forthcomingLone Echo II(seen in the trailer below):

To some degree, the eventual acquisition should have been seen as inevitable with Ready At Dawn’s track record and therecent runof acquisitionsfrom Facebook.

On the other hand, many legacy PlayStation gamers have enjoyed a wealth of Sony-exclusive content by Ready at Dawn. PlayStation had trusted the studio previously with some of its most flagship properties likeJak & DaxterandGod of War. More recently, Ready At Dawn created a technical marvel withThe Order: 1886, a game that willtragically end of a cliffhangerthat likely won’t be closed.

According to the blog post that introduced this move, Ready at Dawn’s acquisition played into multiple factors – not just the games and broader goodwill they carry. The blog post directly mentions the studio’s ‘signature zero-g continuous locomotion system and full-body IK (inverse kinematics).’  While those words probably mean something other than buzzwords, the takeaway is that Oculus is likely hoping to acquire some proprietary VR tech and systems.

The blog post offers some other interesting glimpses – notably that the entire team is moving over to Facebook (instead of a smaller project division), that other acquisitions are likely on the way “for the next few years,” and the team’s main focus will remainLone Echo IIuntil further notice.

In any case,Lone Echo IIwas delayeddue to the worldwide pandemicthough is still targeting a 2020 release date, exclusively on Oculus.