Echo Combat is the new VR multiplayer game from Ready At Dawn Studios.
Echo Combat is the new VR multiplayer game from Ready At Dawn Studios.
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How Ready At Dawn Studios designed Echo Combat for zero-gravity VR firefights

If anyone succeeds in turning virtual reality gaming into an esport, it will probably be Ready At Dawn Studios. The Irvine, California-based studio created Lone Echo and Echo Arena for the Oculus Rift in 2017, and it’s back this year with a new title called Echo Combat.

Lone Echo was a single-player VR experience driven by a story about a robot and a human crew member surviving a disaster in space. Echo Arena was a companion multiplayer game where two teams tried to score points on each other with a flying disc while maneuvering through zero gravity. And Echo Combat takes that same environment and awesome physics and enables team fighting in VR.

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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.