In a pretty damning indictment of the current state of the VR scene, it seems that PlayStation first-party studio Insomniac Games first delisted, and has since relisted, its catalogue of high-end virtual reality games available exclusively on the Occulus/Meta store. What’s that? Didn’t you know Insomniac developed four PC titles exclusively for VR? You’ll understand, then, why this one flew under the radar.
Edge of Nowhere, The Unspoken, Feral Rites, and Stormland, games that diehard enthusiasts had hoped might come to PSVR2 someday, were taken down, without fanfare. This was noted in places like ResetEra over a week ago but failed to gain much traction, even from the normally vocal game preservation community. We caught wind of it when GameRant covered the story over the weekend, around the time Insomniac itself posted an update.
Apparently, rather than being for nefarious reasons, the reason for the games’ delisting stems from being launched on the Oculus Windows Store for the Oculus Rift and Rift S, which Meta has since stopped supporting. Still, Insomniac decided to let fans figure this out for themselves, quietly posting over the weekend that Edge of Nowhere, Stormland, and Feral Rites are available again, without explanation, and are actively working on getting The Unspoken back online.
Did you know Insomniac Games has been quite the proponent of VR games over the past decade? If a series of VR games from a storied first-party developer are delisted en masse and no one notices, does such an act really not make any noise? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source x.com, via resetera.com]
