Gamescom 2015
Hands On: ‘Pollen’ is Still a Sci-fi Mystery Waiting to Unfold
Pollen is an upcoming first-person sci-fi puzzle exploration game produced by Finland based Mindfield Games. Taking you to the far-off research station on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, you follow an ominous quest to explore a mysterious time-bending phenomenon that has taken hold of the...
Hands On: Ubisoft’s VR Prototypes ‘Eagle’s Flight’ and Far Cry’s ‘Vaas VR’
Ubisoft's Montreal office is making some pretty big strides toward prototyping VR games to discover just how far they can push the boundaries of controls and narrative in the virtual space. Olivier Palmieri, game director and head of the...
Hands On: KartKraft VR Experience Revealed at Gamescom 2015
KartKraft, a go-kart sim created by Melbourne based games studio Black Delta, revealed VR-compatibility at Gamescom 2015 for their upcoming title. I had a chance to hop into their 6-degree-of-freedom hexapod motion simulator to race along a laser-scanned, virtual version of Geelong...
Hands On: ‘Gunjack’ from CCP Speaks the Same Design Language as ‘Valkyrie’
CCP Games, makers of Eve: Online and the upcoming multi-headset title Eve: Valkyrie, are expanding the Eve universe to Samsung Gear VR with their new mobile release Gunjack. The game isn't only jaw-droppingly beautiful, (and despite my penchant for...
Valve’s ‘Secret Shop’ HTC Vive Demo Introduces You to DotA 2’s Fantastic World Full of Magic
Valve showed off a special HTC Vive demo at this year's Gamescom featuring the shopkeeper from the Dota 2 universe. There's no telling yet, but Secret Shop looks extremely cohesive and shows a taste of what level of VR interaction may be just around...
Hands On: ‘The Assembly’ Offers New ‘Comfort Mode’, a Multi-Pronged Attack on Sim-Sickness
nDreams, a UK based games studio producing upcoming VR title The Assembly, are declaring war on the discomfort commonly associated with first-person VR games. We sat down with Senior Designer Jackie Tetley and Communications Manager George Kelion at Gamescom 2015...
Crytek Executive Producer on ‘Robinson’: “This Is the One IP in My Career That’s Likely to...
Crytek has made leaps and bounds in the area of VR with only a few months between them and the reveal of official VR support at GDC back in March, a feat that was communicated via their dinosaur-themed tech demo using...
Black Delta Brings VR Racer ‘KartKraft’ to Gamescom with Motion Simulator
Australian studio Black Delta have announced that their "hyperrealistic, high-speed kart racing" game will arrive in Q4 2015 with Oculus Rift support. What's more, for it's Gamescom 2015 debut, the team have a hexapod motion simulator rigged cart plus...
Hands On: ‘Manus’ Wireless VR Gloves Adding OSVR Integration, Promising Hints of Future Positional Tracking
Manus, the minds behind the eponymous VR data glove and Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) partners, have revealed to us that they are well on their way integrating OSVR equipment for their wireless VR gloves
Far from giving up on...
‘Pollen’ Devs Talk Narrative, HTC Vive Integration and Putting Beer Cans into Microwaves
Pollen, a first-person exploration VR game from Helsinki based Mindfield Games, is well on its way for its series of multi-headset launches soon too come, including Sony Morpheus, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. We sat down to talk with CEO Ville...
Oculus ‘Toybox’ is a Playground for Touch Controllers and Sets the Bar for Remote Interaction
Gamescom 2015 has just started, a time when a sizeable portion of the European gaming community flocks to Cologne, Germany for a chance to get a glimpse at the newest that the videogame industry has to offer—which in our case...
‘Oculus Cinema’ Getting Online Multiplayer and New Social Features, Coming to the Consumer Rift
Oculus Cinema is a first-party VR application that recreates the experience of having your own personal cinema or leather chair adorned home theater. And while it's great to feel like you're sitting in front of a massive screen, what...
New ‘Pollen’ Footage Demonstrates Gameworld Interactivity
Mindfield Games, a Finland based games studio, have given Road to VR exclusive new footage showing pre-alpha gameplay of their soon-to-launch sci-fi themed exploration VR title, Pollen.
Update: At the request of Mindfield Games we've removed the video footage of Pollen as...
HTC Vive Nominated for ‘Best Hardware’ in Gamescom 2015 Awards
Virtual reality hardware has set something of a trend at trade show awards over the last few years. Oculus in particular have traditionally cleaned up in the 'best hardware' category at shows like CES for example. Now it seems...
New Gamescom ‘Pollen’ Screenshots Reveal Beautiful Attention to Detail
Pollen from Helsinki based developer Mindfield Games is an immensely promising ‘Oculus Rift Optimised’ story driven adventure set on Saturn moon Titan. The title is coming to Gamescom again this year and the studio has released this new screenshots...
