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All thanks to Flat2VR.

Today was a significant day for the virtual reality gaming community, thanks to the VR Games Showcase. This event, which aired earlier in the day, provided VR users with a glimpse of upcoming games set to be released on various VR platforms over the next few months and into 2027. Among the new reveals were announcements from Flat2VR Studios, which shared plans to bring several titles that previously launched as non-VR games into the VR space.

First...

Virtually engage in virtual warfare with 32-player battles.

Forefront is a brand-new large-scale VR shooter that supports up to 32-player battles. Today, the 1.0 release of Forefront arrives on SteamVR, Meta Quest, and Pico for $27.99. A PlayStation VR2 release is planned for later this year.

I've seen Forefront described as a Battlefield VR clone, though I don't know how accurate that actually is. The game does feature 16v16 battles in levels that are semi-destructible....

Now available as a non-VR experience.

The Steam version of Thrasher, a follow-up title to the much loved Thumper, was just released on Steam today. Unlike the game's previous release on Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro, today's Steam release offers non-VR users a chance to experience the title.

Tackle space eels and mysterious monoliths for the first time in flatscreen with the Steam release. Developer Puddle (Brian Gibson and Mike Mandel) tell us that the game has also...

A new look at the legions of the walking dead.

Saber Interactive released new gameplay footage for World War Z VR today. This new "Swarm" gameplay offers you a little look at the "overwhelming hordes of zombies you'll face down."

World War Z VR, unlike the non-VR version of the game, is a single-player title. It's still based off of the Paramount Pictures film of the same name, which itself is based off of the Max Brooks' book.

World...

Battle the undead again this August.

Saber Interactive announced World War Z VR today for both Meta Quest and SteamVR devices. World War Z is a new, first-person game based on the World War Z IP. Sadly, while the other World War Z games were focused on co-op, this one is a strictly single player title.

World War Z VR is expected to be out on August 12, 2025. Pre-orders are live right now through both the Meta Store (apparently not yet live at publication time) and S...

The goal is to bring recent Steam client features into SteamVR.

Valve just launched SteamVR 2.0 as an opt-in beta. Valve says that this is the "first major step toward (their) goal of bringing all of what's new on the Steam platform into VR." This is the first we've heard of SteamVR 2.0 since it was first teased back in 2020.

This means that those who opt into the beta will notice a new user interface that includes many new features. Features such as an updated...

Those with arachnophobia should just keep on walking.

Kill it with Fire is a first-person game where you try to hunt down and kill virtual spiders. It came out in 2020 on PC, at least through Steam, and it's over the top action seemed to resonate well with fans. What if you took that same idea but now it's in virtual reality?

Casey Donnellan Games and tinyBuild just announced an upcoming VR release of Kill it with Fire that will hit Meta Quest 2, SteamVR, and both PlayStation...

Now you can look sus in virtual reality.

Deceive or be deceived, now in virtual reality. Among Us VR was just announced last night. The VR version of the game will launch on the Oculus Meta Quest, PlayStation VR, and SteamVR whenever it's ready to be released. This VR adaptation is in development by Schell Games, the development studio behind the well regarded I Expect You to Die VR franchise.

Though the game will be in 3D and VR, the core mechanics remain largely the...

Viable competition might be coming for the Oculus Quest.

According to datamined information shared first by YouTuber SadlyItsBradley, Valve might be working on a standalone VR headset. This means that they are possibly working on a device that will allow you to play in VR without the need for wires or external tracking satellites.

SadlyItsBradley noticed several references to something called "Deckard" in the latest update for SteamVR. He says that information...

New hotfix drivers may smooth out your VR gaming experience.

If you have an Nvidia card and are also an avid VR user, you may have noticed some unwanted and mysterious new stutter in your gaming experiences. This seems to have been caused by some of Nvidia's latest drivers, though the root cause is still not fully known.

Thankfully, there are some new hotfix drivers out that should address most of the stuttering that have been reported by numerous users over the past several...

Valve dishes the details in their 2020 year in review.

Valve just put out their third ever "Year in Review" for Steam, the Community, Labs, and the Steam Store. First up are some interesting facts about player counts for the year that was 2020, a year like none other before it.

Valve divulged that in 2020, they had 120 million monthly active players. This is in combination with the 62.6 million daily active players. That means that in any given day, roughly half...

2019 was another big year for the PC platform.

Steam has been around for quite some time now. In fact, 2020 marks Steam's 17th anniversary come September. 17 years is a long time for anything. If you didn't know any better, you might be sitting there right now thinking that after all this time Steam could not be improved or iterated on in any capacity. At best, all that happened was that a bunch of new games were added and they called it a year. Right?

That is where you...

The violent VR gladiator sim is now a full game.

Devolver Digital and developer Free Lives have pulled GORN out of Early Access today. The game is now a fully fledged release for SteamVR and Oculus devices. If you don't already know, GORN is a cartoony but violent gladiator sim. You are pitted against NPCs as you utilize physics based combat and weapons to beat your opponents into a pulp, quite literally.

GORN spent roughly two years in Steam Early Access and ended up...

It's an all-new story.

Rebellion and Just Add Water have partnered to create a new Sniper Elite title unlike anything you've seen before. The latest reveal here is for Sniper Elite VR, an upcoming all-new game coming for VR devices on the PC and PlayStation VR at a date to be announced. Specifically, it's being developed for Oculus Rift, Viveport, SteamVR, and PlayStation VR.

Sniper Elite VR is a new and standalone FPS that is set prior to the events of Sniper Elite 4....

Valve just showed off their new SteamVR Skeletal Input system that aims to more accurately replicate what a player's hand and body are doing in a virtual environment.
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