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Every Game Getting a Free PSVR 2 Upgrade (so far) – Road to VR

Every Game Getting a Free PSVR 2 Upgrade (so far) – Road to VR

The lack of backwards compatibility between PSVR 2 and the original PSVR is a bit of a double-edged sword. On one hand, we’re getting a ton of games for Sony’s next-gen VR headset that have been specifically built or overhauled to make use of the new hardware, but it also means a lot of games in your PSVR library will forever be stuck in the past.

Thankfully, there are a handful of developers who have pledged free PSVR 2 support for their games, many of which you can already grab on the store before the headset launches on February 22nd, 2023.

Note: There are a ton of games coming to PSVR 2 you might recognize, although not all studios have mentioned free PSVR 2 support for those games. We’ll be updating this list, so check back for more. Also, in addition to previously released titles getting new PSVR 2 support, we’ve also included brand new titles launching with both PSVR and PSVR 2 support. You’ll find those at the bottom, labeled [NEW].

We’ve also included a [Awaiting Further Confirmation] section at the bottom, which we are in the process of vetting.

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

Based on the series’ graphic novels, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners tosses you into the flooded ruins of New Orleans, where you face gut-wrenching choices: Kill the zombies? Sure. Join a gang? Okay. Execute someone who may be innocent to maintain an alliance..? That one’s on you. While not a launch title, Skydance is bringing the free PSVR 2 upgrade on March 21st, arriving alongside the sequel as it finally leaves Quest exclusivity.

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Puzzling Places

Puzzling Places is a jigsaw puzzle for the virtual age, bringing to life a vast selection of real-world places that were captured with a technique called photogrammetry. Sit back and relax with a lower number of pieces and enjoy the intricate bits of each puzzling scene, or go for the most difficult mode where you’ll find yourself matching carpet patterns and wooden desk venires in one of the most surprisingly fun purist puzzle games out there. Yup, previously purchased DLC is coming over too.

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Song in the Smoke: Rekindled

Looking for a survival game that lets you craft everything you need to fend off the wild primeval beasties of the nigth? Song in the Smoke has your number, and the ‘rekindled’ edition for PSVR 2 is said to be fully remastered with supercharged graphics, new haptics for Sense Controllers, and a new free jump and clamber mode.

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Synth Riders: Remastered Edition

Kluge Interactive announced a remastered version of its hit rhythm game Synth Riders. This includes remastered visuals, more nuanced controller haptics, headset feedback for in-game obstacles, next-gen performance and SSD optimization to dramatically reduce load times. And yes, it includes all music DLC previously purchased on the original PSVR so you can pick up where you last left off.

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NFL Pro Era

NFL PRO ERA is the first fully licensed NFL VR sim that puts you in the shoes of QB of your favorite NFL team. Lead your team to a Super Bowl, improve your QB skills by participating in drills, or play catch virtually with your friends in your favorite NFL stadium.

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Gran Turismo 7

During Sony’s CES 2023 conference, the company announced that Gran Turismo 7 will support PSVR 2 at the headset’s launch via a free upgrade for existing owners. Not much was shared about exactly how the game’s VR compatibility will work, including whether it would support the headset’s new motion controllers or rely on the standard PS5 gamepad. Still, it’s a pretty exciting prospect since GT7 is a big upgrade over GT Sport.

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Resident Evil Village

A free PSVR 2 upgrade is expected at the headset’s launch in February, which includes the entirety of its main story in VR. We went hands-on with Village back in September, and it proved to not only one of the best-looking games on PS5 to date, but probably one of the best in VR, offering up a level of visual detail that approaches Half-Life: Alyx territory.

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After the Fall

Team zombie shooter After the Fall is cross-compatible with PC and Quest, but it’s soon to be available on PSVR 2 too, as Vertigo Games is tossing out support for Sony’s latest and greatest at some point in early 2023. It’s basically Left 4 Dead in VR, and it’s most definitely worth getting a team together since this horde shooter is cross-compatible with PSVR, Quest, and PC VR headsets.

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No Man’s Sky

This space simulator used to be considered gaming’s biggest flop, but thanks to Hello Games’ continuous updates it’s become the industry’s biggest redemption story. With the promise of free PSVR 2 support, you’ll be able to strap into No Man’s Sky on launch day with your shiny new headset.

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Pistol Whip

Pistol Whip is a rhythm-shooter from Cloudhead Games, which has thrown out tons of updates and free DLC to keep you blasting away like John Wick to some pretty infectious beats. On PSVR 2, the game is said to offer fine-tuned haptics, adaptive triggers, higher resolution, 3D audio, and SSD optimization to bolster how the game loads and runs.

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Zenith: The Last City

Zenith: The Last City is one of VR’s most successful MMOs to date, offering up hundreds of hours of quests, jobs, classes, you name it. Developers Ramen VR say it’s getting a free PSVR 2 upgrade. If you already own the PS4 version, the PSVR 2-supported PS5 version is already free to download, so nab it early so you can play with all of your friends on Quest, PC VR headsets, and the original PSVR.

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The Light Brigade – [NEW]

This is a new title coming to both PSVR and PSVR 2, developed by Funktronic Labs, the studio behind Fujii and Cosmic Trip. The Light Brigade tosses you on a procedurally-generated journey to free the souls of the fallen trapped within, making for a tactical roguelike shooting experience you can play on launch-day.

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Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue – [NEW]

Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue is another new title getting both PSVR and PSVR 2 support, letting you delve into the same universe of the popular Hello Neighbor stealth horror series. Sneak into your creepy neighbor’s house to save your friend, and don’t get caught.

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Awaiting Further Confirmation

There are a number of games that many expect, or have heard will get either cross-buy or some form of free PSVR 2 upgrade at some point. We’re in the process of verifying these titles; they still have poor documentation (some guy in Discord said it!), or studios haven’t fully committed to free support (“We want to, but we still have to figure it out..)

We’ll move these up to the section above as studios release word, or we find verifiable confirmation. Remember, this list is growing rapidly, so feel free to comment and let us know so we can make this the most complete and accurate article on the subject.

  • Beat Saber – Beat Games (Meta)
  • ALVO – Mordonpool
  • The Guy VR – Chubby Pixel
  • Swordsman VR – SinnStudio

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Did we miss any? Let us know in the comments below, as we’ll be updating this article all the way up to PSVR 2’s launch in February.

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COD Modern Warfare 2 Season 3 Update Is Breaking The Game For Some AMD Gamers

COD Modern Warfare 2 Season 3 Update Is Breaking The Game For Some AMD Gamers
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Call of Duty Modern-day Warfare 2 (which includes CoD:Warzone 2.) just obtained its significant Season 3 update, bringing along new modes like Substantial Resurgence, Gunfight, and Cranked, as effectively as new maps, new operators, and updates to the Ricochet anti-cheat method. It also brought with it a frustrating concern for some gamers, though—a total inability to start the activity.

A reader (who asked to continue being unnamed) wrote in to alert us about this difficulty that appears to be to primarily have an effect on customers with AMD Vega-dependent graphics hardware, which means not only the primary Radeon RX Vega 56 and RX Vega 64 graphics playing cards but also the Radeon VII and integrated GPUs based mostly on the same architecture. That list incorporates the integrated GPUs for nearly all Ryzen processors, this kind of as the Ryzen 5 5600G and 5000-series cellular processors, even if paired with a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GPU.
COD Modern Warfare 2 Season 3 Update Is Breaking The Game For Some AMD Gamers
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More studies from around the net from the game’s Steam Group discussion boards, Reddit, AMD’s own community forums, and Twitter, all look to point out that any one with a Vega-based graphics processor will have the activity hang on an early Position monitor in which the title checks for updates and downloads the player’s profile. Our reader writes that the app turns into unresponsive for a short period before “the complete display screen goes black and typical once again seriously rapidly.”

That seems like a Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR) party to us. TDR is a Home windows mechanism that detects when the graphics driver has crashed and makes an attempt to restart it. Even though this functions well to avert the whole machine from getting locked-up and can help you save users from dropping operate in place of work programs, it generally crashes any game titles or other GPU-accelerated applications as the initial driver context is missing.
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Certainly, that is the error code revealed in the screenshots posted all in excess of the world wide web. DirectX error 0x887A0005 suggests that the product context was shed and the application can no longer mail instructions to the GPU. Offered that this began occurring to house owners of Vega GPUs following the Period 3 update for CoD:MW2, it seems evident that the game alone is at fault right here, but it could also be down to a previously-undiscovered situation in AMD’s graphics drivers.

Notably, there are sparse experiences of people today with other graphics cards acquiring this exact same error, but it can be well worth noting that this error message is just a generic concept explaining that your GPU driver crashed. That could occur to anybody for tons of explanations, like a corrupted graphics driver, weak electricity supply, or myriad other difficulties. Meanwhile, it appears to be like no person with a Vega GPU can in fact get in-recreation.
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Some posters have encouraged consumers to just take the conventional troubleshooting techniques: cleanse out your cache files, update your graphics motorists, and validate the game’s integrity by means of Steam or the Struggle.net launcher. Though these are definitely fantastic measures to consider, it would not feel like they take care of this unique problem. A single user posted a reply from the game’s assistance staff members acknowledging the difficulty but providing no additional handy info. The bug hasn’t appeared on the game’s Trello bug tracker but.

Regrettably, we will not have any handy data either—like, say, a resolve, at minimum aside from changing your graphics card. While Vega is acquiring pretty long in the tooth at this stage, the discrete cards are even now very capable for recent video games in lessen resolutions and with modest settings it would be a disgrace for people to substitute doing the job graphics playing cards just mainly because of a single match bug. Hopefully Infinity Ward can get this situation patched up quickly. We have arrived at out to AMD for remark as nicely and will update if and when we obtain a response.

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Giannis Antetokounmpo injury update: Bucks optimistic star can return for Game 2 vs. Heat, per report

Giannis Antetokounmpo injury update: Bucks optimistic star can return for Game 2 vs. Heat, per report

MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo left the team’s 130-117 loss to the Miami Heat in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series with a lower back contusion. He suffered no structural damage, but his status for Game 2 and beyond will depend on how his back responds. The Bucks are optimistic that Antetokounmpo will be available for Game 2, per Shams Charania, but the two-time MVP is also reportedly dealing with a ligament issue in his wrist.

“There was an X-ray that was clear here, so we’ll monitor him, see how he does,” Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer said. “See how he wakes up, how he feels the rest of tonight and tomorrow.”

In the middle of the first quarter, Antetokounmpo took a swing pass from Joe Ingles and drove hard to the basket. As he took off for the rim from just outside the charge circle, Kevin Love slid underneath in an attempt to take a charge. Antetokounmpo had his legs taken out in the process and crashed hard to the floor on his lower back.

The play was ruled a blocking foul on Love, and Antetokounmpo remained in the game to shoot his free throws, then continued playing for a few more minutes before checking out at the end of his usual first quarter stint. Upon exiting the game, he went straight to the locker room, but was back out on the bench for the start of the second quarter.

With 9:56 remaining in the second quarter, Antetokounmpo checked back into the game and went through a series of twists and jumps near mid-court to try and loosen up his back. He only lasted a little over a minute, however, and subbed back out with 8:33 on the clock. Moving gingerly, he again went right down the tunnel to the locker room and was officially ruled out a short time later.

The Bucks were trailing by eight when Antetokounmpo left the game and never truly recovered. A run in the third quarter briefly cut the deficit to three, but they trailed by double digits for large portions of the second half and eventually lost by 13.

“That’s our guy, we hope he’s gonna be well and back out there with us Wednesday,” Khris Middleton said. “But we just gotta focus on who’s out there at the same time. They had a guy go down also and they continued to compete and play well. Same mindset we tried to have. Sucks that our guy goes down or can’t return, but we still got a job to do out there.”

Milwaukee has plenty of experience playing without Antetokounmpo, both this season when he missed 19 games and in the 2021 playoffs when he suffered a hyperextended knee in the Eastern Conference finals. It goes without saying, though, that they would prefer to have their two-time MVP on the floor.

“We don’t want him to be hurt, but it’s still next man up mentality,” Jrue Holiday said. “We have enough talent on this team to cover for him until he comes back or possibly comes back. Again, I just don’t want to see him hurt because I know what it feels like, especially Game 1 of the playoffs.”

During the regular season, Antetokounmpo averaged 31.1 points, 11.8 rebounds and 5.7 assists per game. He was the only player in the league to put up at least 30 points, 10 rebounds and five assists a night, and the Bucks were 47-16 when he played compared to 11-8 when he sat.

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Proton update gets 18 more Windows games running on Linux, including Chex Quest HD

Proton update gets 18 more Windows games running on Linux, including Chex Quest HD
The modern remake of an infamous <em>Doom</em> clone, <em>Chex Quest HD</em> is now playable on the Steam Deck and other modern Linux PCs.
Enlarge / The modern remake of an infamous Doom clone, Chex Quest High definition is now playable on the Steam Deck and other modern Linux PCs.

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To perform Home windows-appropriate game titles in its Linux-based running technique, the Steam Deck relies on a compatibility layer identified as Proton. It is a collection of distinct technologies, which includes the venerable Wine computer software and computer software that translates Home windows-indigenous Immediate3D API phone calls into Vulkan API phone calls that Linux can cope with.

Proton is continuously updated to correct rendering bugs in specific online games and to include new games to the compatibility record variation 8. was unveiled yesterday and additional assist for 18 new online games (and fixes rendering bugs in tons of many others). Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais termed the release “our most important rebase to date.”

The new compatibility listing contains a several of the huge, recognizable titles you would be expecting Valve to prioritize, like the 2023 re-launch of Dead House and Sq. Enix’s Forspoken. But there is 1 oddball sport that stood out to me: Chex Quest High definition, the remastered model of a 1996 CD-ROM sport that was involved for totally free in packing containers of Chex cereal for 6 weeks in the mid-’90s.

The original Chex Quest was a reskinned and modified variation of The Greatest Doom, a 1995 re-launch of the 1993 authentic. For Computer system gamers at the time who experienced by now moved on to Quake, its outdated graphics and gameplay (and its nakedly uncool corporate branding and kid-helpful aesthetic) made it passé. But for little ones with no disposable revenue and/or dad and mom who didn’t want them taking part in a little something as violent as Doom, it served as an introduction to the initial-particular person shooter style.

Its oddly devoted fanbase has presented the Chex Quest franchise a much lengthier shelf daily life than a standard cereal box. Cost-free-to-obtain sequels followed in 1997 and 2008, and the 2008 Chex Quest 3 launch also involved current ZDoom variations of the 1st two game titles with other modifications and bug fixes. Chex Quest Hd, the 2020 release supported by the Proton 8. update, is a comprehensive remaster of the primary crafted working with Unreal Motor 4. It really is a cost-free download for Steam people, and you can find a $5 Nintendo Switch model obtainable, much too.

Despite the fact that new Proton updates reward the Steam Deck very first and foremost, it really is an open supply resource, and Valve bundles it in all variations of Steam for Linux. Come across and help the Steam Perform placing (Canonical has Ubuntu guidelines below, but it need to be the similar on most distros), and you will be able to consider officially supported-and-tested Windows games on your have Linux Computer system. An experimental branch also exists if you want to try a recreation that isn’t really on the formal guidance checklist.

The Proton 8. update necessitates a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 guidance. Despite the fact that this edition of the Vulkan spec was only finalized in early 2022, GPUs that are however acquiring driver updates from their producers must all aid it. The Khronos Group’s conformance record demonstrates Vulkan 1.3 guidance for Intel built-in GPUs going again to 2017’s 7th-generation Core processors, as well as all Iris Xe and Arc GPUs AMD GPUs as outdated as 2016’s Radeon RX 480 and Nvidia GPUs as previous as 2014’s GeForce GTX 750 Ti.

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A Windows 11 security update is breaking some PC games

A Windows 11 security update is breaking some PC games

Courtesy of a Home windows Defender update, many end users are reporting difficulties, particularly when it will come to Pc games with anti-cheat software.

Windows 11’s crafted-in antivirus program, Windows Defender, not long ago obtained up to date, and some people who been given the update were greeted with the following warning, “Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is off. Your machine may possibly be vulnerable.” This is a new stability attribute you can now toggle on or off that essentially depends on your processor to give software package an extra layer of stability.

Which is all nicely and great, but the issue is toggling on that stack defense is failing for some end users, causing the warning to persist. Reportedly, this situation will come down to certain games’ anti-cheat computer software. Nevertheless, other stories counsel the situation is brought about by a driver conflict, but for quite a few, if they check out to take care of such a conflict, absolutely nothing appears to be to actually take place and the difficulty continues to be.

Presently, the only way to properly permit stack security and take care of this problem appears to be to thoroughly uninstall offending video games and accompanying anti-cheat application. Users report video games like Phantasy Star On the web 2, Valorant, and Future 2 (along with their anti-cheat software program) have been involved with this stack defense challenge, amid other game titles. This isn’t fantastic information for lovers of these popular games, taking into consideration the latest workaround is to simply just eliminate these games from your Computer and prevent enjoying.

Nonetheless, some customers have documented remaining ready to empower stack safety at the expense of problematic games simply just crashing or refusing to launch nevertheless, your private mileage may vary, and having to deal with continuous crashing or becoming unable to essentially open up up specific games is not specifically excellent. Of system, you could basically depart stack security off, but then you will be without perhaps significant safety from destructive code.

For now, we’ll have to wait around and see what Microsoft suggests (and does) about this difficulty. In the meantime, if you’re afflicted by this concern, you could want to allow stack safety and uninstall any game titles providing you difficulties.

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Kawhi Leonard injury update: Clippers star surprisingly ruled out for Game 3 vs. Suns with knee sprain

Kawhi Leonard injury update: Clippers star surprisingly ruled out for Game 3 vs. Suns with knee sprain

Kawhi Leonard will not play in Game 3 of the Los Angeles Clippers’ first-round series vs. the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night due to a knee sprain, the team announced. Leonard initially suffered the injury in Game 1 and is expected to be day-to-day ahead of Game 4, according to Adrian Wojnarowski.

Clippers president Lawrence Frank told reporters Leonard is “extremely disappointed” that he won’t be able to suit up for Game 3, but wouldn’t go into further detail about the severity of his injury.

It remains unclear exactly when Leonard aggravated his knee, as he never went to the locker room and played over 80 combined minutes in Games 1 and 2. Clippers beat writer Law Murray suggested this play from the third quarter of Game 1, which was similar to the sequence where Leonard tore his ACL in the 2021 playoffs. But, again, that is just a guess. 

Leonard sat out of the entire 2021-22 season to rehab his knee and had been load managing it all season long. He missed 20 of the Clippers’ first 27 games and the only time he played more than five consecutive games was when he played six in a row on either side of the All-Star break. 

The plan seemed to be working to perfection. Leonard was terrific in the regular season when he did play, averaging 23.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.9 assists on 51.2/41.6/87.1 shooting splits. That trend continued in the first two games of this series, as Leonard put up a combined 69 points, 13 rebounds, 12 assists and four steals on 24-of-44 from the field to help the Clippers steal home-court advantage. 

This new injury is unrelated to the torn ACL, per Wojnarowski, though they did both happen in his right knee. 

Heading into this series, the Clippers were already without Paul George, who sprained his knee during a March 21 game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. While he is on the comeback trail and has restarted on-court activities, he’s not expected to play in the first round, according to Wojnarowski. 

George’s absence made the Clippers sizeable underdogs against the high-powered Suns led by Kevin Durant and Devin Booker, but after earning a split in Phoenix the Clippers had some hope. That has now been significantly drained by the Leonard news. It’s nearly impossible to see how the Clippers win Game 3 without either of their stars, and there’s no guarantee that Leonard will be available for Game 4 and beyond. Even if he does play, he likely won’t be at 100 percent. 

There’s still a long way to go in the series, but once again the Clippers have been dealt some serious bad luck in the playoffs.