{"id":319695,"date":"2026-03-03T14:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/319695\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:11:17","slug":"zombie-army-vr-to-close-co-op-online-servers-less-than-a-year-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/319695\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Zombie Army VR&#8217; to Close Co-op Online Servers Less Than a Year After Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebellion announced that\u00a0Zombie Army VR (2025)\u00a0is soon losing online co-op, as the studio chalks its up to a change made by the Unity to its underlying game engine.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher and co-developer Rebellion Games says in <a href=\"https:\/\/support.rebellion.com\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/34218734494237-Co-op-will-no-longer-be-available-in-Zombie-Army-VR-from-the-end-of-March\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">an announcement\u00a0<\/a>that\u00a0Zombie Army VR\u00a0will be losing online co-op at the \u201cend of March.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The studio, which developed the game alongside XR indie Xtended Realities,\u00a0says its decision to axe co-op comes down to \u201cUnity\u2019s phased exit from the Multiplay Game Server Hosting Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unity announced in December it was operating its Multiplay Game Server Hosting Service service through March 31st, 2026, noting that\u00a0the service is deprecated in Unity 6. Instead, the hosting service framework being is being replaced by the unified Multiplayer Services package, which notably requires developer intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Rebellion says in the announcement that it\u2019s still investigating how it plans to handle co-op save data, noting that it\u2019s aim is to \u201cprotect the integrity of the save data with no loss of progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Released in June 2025, Zombie Army VR\u00a0faithfully brought the storied franchise to VR for the first time, serving up both single player and two-player co-op on SteamVR, Quest and PSVR 2. Catch<a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/zombie-army-vr-review-quest-3-psvr-2-steamvr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> our full review here<\/a> to learn why we gave it a [6.5\/10].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebellion announced that\u00a0Zombie Army VR (2025)\u00a0is soon losing online co-op, as the studio chalks its up to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,46,125,340,341,342],"class_list":{"0":"post-319695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-virtualreality","13":"tag-vr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}