CharacterBank’s Version 1.1 adds Chapter 6, the final main-story chapter, free for Story Pass owners on October 20, along with loading cuts of up to 80% and a level cap of 45. A separate notice tells Quest 2 owners the game was never supported there.
Waving Bear Studio’s four-player co-op VR wave shooter now has a date: November 3 on Quest and SteamVR. A free Windows demo with one full map and the full arsenal is on Steam ahead of Next Fest (Oct 19-26); price is still unannounced.
Zen Studios’ Pinball FX VR went live on Steam on October 14 as a Steam Frame-only game at $9.99. Hours later the studio said a DLC recognition fault may leave some purchased tables temporarily unavailable, with no fix timeline.
Valve’s Steam store now says the Index is no longer being produced. Remaining headsets, controllers and accessories are 20% off while supplies last, and existing owners keep Steam and SteamVR support.
Pimax told GamingOnLinux on October 12 that a dedicated Linux Pimax Play client is being developed now, with no date or build. Its own matrix already labels Linux Experimental, and community drivers cannot bypass the client for SLAM headsets like the $1,399 Crystal Pro.
Murata and Melt Interface Technologies won a CEATEC AWARD 2026 Excellence Award for the camera-free ContactGlove3 series, but Melt’s product page still says October while its October 5 release says the series goes on sale from November.
An open-source driver tagged its first release candidates on October 8. It reads the XREAL 1S sensors for rotation-only SteamVR on a Bazzite Steam Deck; yaw drifts and 6DoF is parked.
SteamOS 0.4.5 for Steam Frame adds one line: a fix for a headset chroma regression in VR streaming. Valve never said which build caused it, shipped a second color fix the same evening, and still keeps the PC-side SteamVR 2.18.2 on beta.
UploadVR calls XOCUS’s anti-gravity racer genuinely compelling, but its two caveats hit combat racing and ship upgrades, and it counts 27 tracks against the trailer’s 28.
SteamVR beta 2.18.1 lists a keyboard fix for Skyrim VR ‘in some scenarios.’ Two owners in Valve’s bug forum say the keyboard still never appears at character creation in Skyrim VR and Fallout 4 VR, and both fixes remain on beta branches.