Published May 3, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT Little Nightmares and TMNT lead a surprisingly strong month for VR gaming VR's unexpected moment is good news for the Steam Frame Image: Cortopia Studios/Beyond Frames Entertainemnt If you follow the news, you know that it hasn’t been a great year for VR gaming. That’s a bit of an understatement: it has been dire. Meta shut down four of its internal VR studios , including Twisted Pixel ( Marvel’s Deadpool VR ) and Sanzaru Games ( Asgard’s Wrath 2 ). Ubisoft shut down game development at Red Storm Entertainment, the team behind Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR . Moss developer Polyarc laid off two-thirds of its staff . At a glance, all signs point to the impending death of VR as a gaming platform. And yet, VR is having an unlikely moment right now. In the last month, we’ve seen the launch of three major game releases: Little Nightmares VR Altered Echoes , The Boys: Trigger Warning , and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City .…