Iron Rebellion Developers Spent A Decade Building Toward MechWarrior In VR

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Iron Rebellion Developers Spent A Decade Building Toward MechWarrior In VR

From building a cardboard cockpit around a monitor in the 1990s to panicked moments reaching for controls in a mech stomping around the VR battlefield in the 2020s.

Ian Hamilton

Jul 24, 2026

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Justin Spice is on a mission to make something like MechWarrior in VR.

In the 1990s he set up a cardboard box around his PC’s monitor to simulate a cockpit for MechWarrior 2 running on Windows 95. Roughly 30 years later, Iron Rebellions’s very positive rating on Steam (and 4.6 on Quest) is a testament to his effort at Black Beach Studio to create a full…

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