GDC 2016
New Job Simulator Trailer Reveals Final Job: The Automotive Mechanic
Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator is coming to the Oculus Rift with Oculus Touch support this year and launches alongside (and indeed in the box) with the HTC Vive. This latest trailer for the game reveals the fourth and final...
Valve’s ‘The Lab’ is a Wondrous Playground Full of VR Toys on HTC Vive
Road to VR's Scott Hayden goes hands on with Valve's latest virtual reality experience, a collection of experiments in immersive gaming known as 'The Lab'.
In the first public showing of the Lab, we got a chance to jump into...
Unreal Engine VR Editor Demonstrated on Oculus Rift and Touch, Available Today
At Epic's Unreal Engine presentation at GDC, the team demonstrated their forthcoming Unreal VR Editor working with both the Oculus Rift VR Headset and the Oculus Rift motion controllers.
On stage at Epic's Demonstrated full editor menus represented, content browser,...
Watch Epic’s Keynote ‘State of Unreal Engine’ – Live Stream @9:30 PST
Epic's presence at GDC and VRDC reflects it's importance in this next phase of virtual reality application development as it's Unreal Engine drives a significant number of new games and applications in the VR space heading into 2016. Watch...
‘Battlezone’ Gets New Gameplay Video, Heading to PlayStation VR as Launch Title
Battlezone will be among the first PlayStation VR games you'll be able to play when you plug your shiny new PlayStation VR headset into the PS4 this October. A new gameplay video shows the launch sequence for the 'Cobra'...
A Round Table Discussion of Oculus Game Day Highlights
Road to VR co-founder Ben Lang and writer Scott Hayden attended the Oculus Game Days 2016 event on Sunday and joined me for a roundtable discussion about their launch title highlights, some analysis about the event, the future of...
Preview: ‘Eagle Flight’ is a Kinetic Thrill Ride That Surprisingly Doesn’t Make Me Want to Vomit
Eagle Flight, the upcoming multiplayer game from Ubisoft Montreal, looks to be nearing finalization with the latest build we saw at the pre-GDC Oculus Gameday event. And while the game sounds like it ought to make you want to barf, we've finally got a...
Preview: ‘Dead & Buried’ Action Packed Multiplayer Could be the Killer App Oculus Touch Needs
After playing the latest build of Dead & Buried, the gun-slinging action game from Oculus Studios, I walked away disappointed. Disappointed that I would have to wait many months still for Oculus to release their Touch controllers so that I'd be...
Preview: ‘VR Sports Challenge’ Turns You into the MVP You Were Always Meant to Be
Oculus presented a bevy of games at their pre-GDC Gameday event, some launching on the 28th of March alongside the Rift and some destined for Touch, the company's natural input controller heading to consumers in Q3 of this year....
Preview: ‘Damaged Core’ Takes Teleportation to a New Extreme in a Fast-Paced FPS
Damaged Core is a first-person shooter from High Voltage Software that's offering a unique solution to one of the biggest problems facing first-person games in VR today—locomotion. And while the game's own brand of teleportation may take more than a minute...
Preview: ‘Chronos’ is a Masterfully Directed Adventure That I Can’t Wait to Dig Into
Games like Chronos seem to be a rarity these days: a narrative-driven action-adventure with a rich world, challenging combat, and no reward-driven feedback loops. After just 20 minutes of what the developers tell me will be a near 12 hour...
Oculus Names 30 Rift Launch Titles and Their Prices
Oculus' pre-GDC 'Game Days' event was an opportunity for the company to flaunt its substantial line up of original virtual reality content for the forthcoming Rift headset. But how many games will there be at launch and how much...
PlayStation VR: What You Do and Don’t Get in the Box
The PlayStation VR headset will be available from October 2016 for $399, but what do you get for your 400 bucks? That how does what's missing cost you?
As an additional piece of hardware dedicated to gaming, the PlayStation VR...
PlayStationVR ‘Cinematic Mode’ Lets You Play Your PS4 Games in VR
Revealed alongside the international price and launch of the much awaited Sony PlayStationVR--slated for October 2016 at $399--CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Andrew House announced a 'cinematic mode' for PSVR.
"With the headset on, users can also go into 'cinematic...
Sony PlayStation VR Will Have 50 Games by End of Year
At a special press event held at GDC in San Francisco today, Sony have announced that the PlayStation VR will have 50 titles by the end of the year..
Update (3/15): The figure is actually 50 titles available for PSVR...