Meta’s new shooter game is the most fun I’ve ever had in the metaverse

POV: You're being attacked by someone much better than you at Super Rumble. | Image: Meta

What are the ethics of repeatedly targeting an eight-year-old in a video game? What if that eight-year-old is demonstrably better than you at the game but is currently being forced to talk to his mom and isn't really paying attention, and this is your best and probably only chance to mount a comeback? How much trash can you talk after you kill the eight-year-old a few times? What if that eight-year-old has been talking trash to you for the better part of the last hour while gleefully shouting Expecto Patronum" every time they fire their shotgun?

These are the kinds of questions you're forced to answer in Super Rumble, the new game for the Meta Quest. (They're the same kinds of questions you'll find anywhere in the metaverse and on most...

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