{"id":121455,"date":"2025-09-05T19:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121455\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:50:06","slug":"hectic-vr-arena-shooter-vex-mage-confirms-october-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121455\/","title":{"rendered":"Hectic VR Arena Shooter Vex Mage Confirms October Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vex Mage, a fast-paced co-op arena shooter, arrives next month with a slightly staggered launch on Quest and Steam.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by Nervous Systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uploadvr.com\/vex-mage-announcement-demo\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vex Mage<\/a> aims to deliver a high-speed shooter where you and up to two additional players fight through deadly arenas as enemies emerge from all sides. Announced last month alongside a demo launch, publisher Fast Travel Games revealed today that it&#8217;s launching this October on both platforms with an optional flatscreen mode on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>Playable alone or in co-op with an adaptive difficulty, Vex Mage sees you taking on hordes of enemies across this campaign, and elemental runes can be fused for spell-casting combat using each hand. Global leaderboards and cross-platform multiplayer are also supported.<\/p>\n<p>While the single-player demo has been available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/en-gb\/experiences\/vex-mage-demo\/23999919236330126\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta Quest<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a> since last month&#8217;s announcement, Fast Travel Games confirmed that a co-op multiplayer demo will soon follow for PC VR players. This will launch on October 13 during the upcoming Steam Next Fest.<\/p>\n<p>Vex Mage reaches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/experiences\/vex-mage\/8066310016739916\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quest<\/a> on October 16 for $9.99, followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2700810\/VEX_MAGE\/?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a> launch on October 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vex Mage, a fast-paced co-op arena shooter, arrives next month with a slightly staggered launch on Quest and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,105,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-121455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}