Rebellion's Battlezone brings back memories.
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Hands-on with Rebellion’s chaotic Battlezone on PlayStation VR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Battlezone was one of my favorite arcade games when I was growing up. But the old Atari game that debuted in 1980 was just a wireframe vector-graphics model with a green landscape and red specks that you fired at other tanks.

Today, Rebellion’s remake of the title in virtual reality on the PlayStation VR headset is a much more colorful affair, but it has the same chaotic intense tank warfare that made the original version so fun. I played it at Sony’s event at the Game Developers Conference and thought it was an awesome experience.

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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.