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Ideas, expressions, and virtual battlefields: Understanding IP boundaries in VR game cloning

23 October 2025 The recent popular release of Battlefield 6 has coincided with the release of the beta for Forefront VR, which itself is set to release in November 2025. Despite the two games being unrelated, people are effectively calling Forefront “VR Battlefield”, due to the striking similarity between the two games. In light of this, this article will briefly look at the rise of...