Dead & Buried with the Oculus Quest in a very big arena.
Dead & Buried with the Oculus Quest in a very big arena.
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Oculus Quest hands-on — The untethered Dead & Buried is a completely different game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Dead & Buried was one of the finest multiplayer games on the Oculus Rift when it debuted in 2016. But the Wild West gunslinger shooter had limited mobility, with only two players squaring off against another two in a fairly tight arena.

But today, Facebook showed a demo of its new Oculus Quest virtual reality headset at the Oculus Connect 5 event in San Jose, California. And it showed just how much better it could make Dead & Buried, when played across a wide arena with a standalone, wireless VR headset.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.