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HTC switches up the Vive VR pack-in games

'Fantastic Contraption' and 'Job Simulator' are out, 'The Gallery' and 'Zombie Training Simulator' are in.

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To help soften the blow of the HTC Vive's $800 price tag (or, lord help you, the $1200 Business Edition), the company has struck deals with studios to give you free games with each headset purchase. They just shook up their SteamVR bundle, keeping Tilt Shift but swapping out Fantastic Contraption and Job Simulator for a new duo of games. Buyers will get codes to download the titles from the Steam gaming service.

Of the new games, one is the first entry in The Gallery, a dark episodic adventure inspired by 80s fantasy films:

The second, Zombie Training Simulator, is a zany shooter that's a little less cerebral. (Get it? Brains? The undead?)