Most developers and publishers, when announcing that they are shutting down the online services for a game or stopping development of new content, at least give players the respect of making an individual announcement, separate from the rest of the game's official news timeline, so that if someone were to find that game years after release, they could see it as the most recent, relevant bit of information. No one would have the gall to update a post from years ago and essentially bury the information, right? No one except for PlayStation, it seems, as the slow death of the PS VR2 continues.
Firewall Ultra, the PS VR2 follow-up to Firewall Zero Hour on the original PSVR is officially shutting down as of September 17, 2026. Its servers are being taken offline, and after 10am PDT on that upcoming Thursday, it will be unplayable for anyone who purchased the game. Though not explicitly mentioned, it appears that the game has also already been delisted from the PlayStation Store. Firewall Zero Hour is still available, though.
And as you may have guessed, that bit of news wasn't revealed in a new post from PlayStation. Instead, it was put out in a PlayStation Blog post from August 22, 2023, which was initially a post regarding the game's post-launch roadmap. Now, an update at the top of the page reads, " Online features for Firewall Ultra will be terminated and will no longer be available on September 17, 2026. As you must be online to play this title, this game will no longer be playable starting September 17, 2026 at 10:00am PDT (GMT -7)."
Firewall Zero Hour and Firewall Ultra developer First Contact Entertainment shut down back in 2024, so it's not the biggest surprise to see Ultra get shut down, but it is a little surprising to see it happen in this manner. Trying to sneak it into an old post seems to suggest that PlayStation didn't want to make a fuss of it, but with the studio that made the game already gone, and the PS VR2 already on life support, what fuss would it have made to announce the news in a new post?
It's arguably caused more of a stir because PlayStation didn't meet the most basic requirement these kinds of announcements call for. It's arguably disrespectful to the former developers at First Contact, and to the players who purchased a PS VR2 and a copy of Firewall Ultra.
PlayStation has made it clear through its lack of support for the new headset that it is no longer interested in the PS VR2. After two kicks at the can and disappointing sales for both, it's unlikely we'll get a third generation of PSVR. But trying to quietly hide the pieces of its slow death is just a new layer of indecency that players who actually bought into PlayStation's VR efforts have been made to endure, and it's disappointing to see.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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