Sanzaru Games (Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time)
The studio that remastered the trilogy and made the fourth game.
Sanzaru Games was an American developer founded in 2006 by former Activision developers and based in Foster City, California. Its name comes from the three wise monkeys, sanzaru in Japanese.
Quick Facts
- Founded
- 9 November 2006
- Defunct
- January 13, 2026
- Fate
- Dissolved
- Successor
- Sneaky Devil Studios
- Headquarters
- Foster City, California, U.S.
- Locations
- 3 studios
- Industry
- Video games
- Products
- Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
- Sonic Boom
- Asgard's Wrath
Lore & Background
Founded on November 9, 2006, by seven former Activision staff, mostly from Z-Axis, it began work in January 2007. Its third game was The Sly Collection, a high-definition remaster of Sucker Punch's PlayStation 2 trilogy, released on November 9, 2010.
Reader's Guide
Facebook (now Meta) bought the studio in February 2020 and placed it under Oculus Studios. Meta was reported to have closed it on January 13, 2026.
Sanzaru then developed the fourth main game, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, released in 2013 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.
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