Firewall: Ultra brings high-end multiplayer shooter to PSVR 2 | Preview

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 13, 2023
Updated June 18, 2025
6 min

I’m always happy when nothing goes wrong in a virtual reality game. My glasses don’t break. I don’t get nauseous. And the experience is smooth. That was the case with a demo of Firewall: Ultra, a new VR team shooter game for the PlayStation VR 2 from First Contact Entertainment.

I played multiple rounds of the game this week at Sony’s headquarters in San Mateo, California. I grabbed the hand controllers, put the PSVR 2 on my head, tightened it and was ready to go. The Sony crew told my fellow game journalists how to play and off we went into four-versus-four matches.

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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.