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Trombone Champ is bringing its acclaimed tooting action to VR this autumn

Parping onto PC, Quest, and PSVR2.

A Trombone Champ: Unflattened screenshot showing the player on stage, looking out across a cartoon-y concert hall as they toot their trombone in first-person.
Image credit: Flat2VR Studios/Holy Wow Studios

Video gaming's premier horn honker, Trombone Champ, is bringing its comedic rhythm-tooting to virtual reality helmets - meaning PC, PlayStation VR 2, and Meta Quest players might want to pucker up in preparation for a vigorous tromboning session this autumn.

Trombone Champ: Unflattened, as the new VR version of the 2022 rhythm-action sensation is known, is one of the first official VR adaptations from Flat2VR Studios - the developer comprising of modders behind unofficial VR versions of games like Half-Life 2 and Doom.

Created in conjunction with original Trombone Champ developer Holy Wow Studios, Trombone Champ: Unflattened is set to feature more than 50 songs across its single-player campaign, with tracks including Ode to Joy, Sakura Sakura, God Save the King, and more.

Trombone Champ: Unflattened announcement trailer.Watch on YouTube

It also features mixed reality support, additional (and customisable) trombones for parp-fiends to unlock, cards to collect, and a range of animated 3D environments to stand in while players honk to their heart's content - such as the opulent concert hall featured in Trombone Champ: Unflattened's announcement trailer above.

Trombone Champ: Unflattened doesn't have an exact release date yet, but it'll be causing a racket on Steam VR, PSVR2, and Meta Quest this autumn. And if you haven't yet familiarised yourself with the original Trombone Champ yet, I think Eurogamer contributor Liv Ngan said it best when she wrote, "It's safe to say that 2022 has been another weird year for us all."

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