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Watch: Six Minutes of ‘Mage’s Tale’ Gameplay Shows Real Promise

Mage’s Tale is a VR Action RPG set in the world of classic fantasy RPG The Bard’s Tale. It is being shown at GDC 2017 for the first time on Oculus Rift and Touch and here's six minutes of...

AMD GPUs to Support Asynchronous Reprojection via SteamVR

Announced at AMD’s GDC 2017 press conference, Radeon GPUs will support Asynchronous Reprojection on SteamVR in the next update. The technology helps to maintain smooth head motion when framerate drops below the headset's refresh rate. Roy Taylor, Corporate Vice President...

Oculus Reveals 6 New VR Titles for Rift & Gear VR at GDC 2017

Debuted at GDC 2017 and announced via their official blog, Oculus offer a first look at some of the titles coming to Rift and Gear VR in 2017. This includes 6 new game reveals across multiple genres, with 4...
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‘From Other Suns’ is an ‘FTL’ Inspired Co-op VR FPS for Oculus Touch That’s Different Every...

Returning to an earlier era of gaming, Chronos (2016) was an unforgiving third-person action adventure game that launched alongside the Rift. Inspired by FTL (2012) developer Gunfire Games is now applying their lauded old-school game design principles to new-school game tech, with...
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Hands-on: ‘ARKTIKA.1’ is Gun-Centric, Highly Detailed and Ready to Impress

Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2017 is here, and Oculus is showing off a bevy of exclusive games that are due out sometime later this year. Among them was an entirely new level of ARTIKA.1, a sci-fi shooter from 4A Games' Malta-based studio that...

‘Killing Floor: Incursion’ Makes You a Co-op Zombie-Killing Machine

Killing Floor: Incursion is an Oculus Touch exclusive co-op horror shooter from Tripwire Interactive, the makers of the Killing Floor franchise. Tripwire refers to it as a 'horde shooter' instead of wave shooter per say, as the zombies that populate the...

Hands-on: ‘Brass Tactics’ is a True Tabletop RTS with All the Classic Trimmings

At Oculus' off-site GDC demo booth we saw Brass Tactics, Hidden Path Entertainment's new real-time strategy game coming exclusively to Oculus Touch after their hit tower defense game Defense Grid 2 Enhanced VR Edition (2016). Filled with a bevy of miniature structures and multiple toy soldier units, the...

Sony to Show Procedural Animation System at GDC, Making NPCs More Believable in VR

Sony's Magic Lab are set to demonstrate a new procedural animation system which it says allows VR characters found in VR to "imbue a sense of shared space with the player" with realistic eye, head and body movements. GDC 2017...
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Watch: This is ‘Sparc’, CCP’s Striking New Futuristic VR Sports Title

CCP games, the developers behind EVE: Valkyrie, have revealed their next made-for-VR title Sparc, a futuristic TRON-esque sports title for HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift & Touch. This is Sparc, a new multiplayer sports title from the developers that...

‘Raw Data’ is Coming to Oculus Home with Reworked Touch Support & Cross-Platform Play

Survios, the developers behind the impressive first person VR action title Raw Data, has announced that the game is coming to Oculus Rift with fully "re-engineered" Touch motion control support and the ability to play online with your HTC...

LG to Reveal VR Headset Prototype Based on SteamVR Tracking This Week

Valve has confirmed that LG is developing a VR headset that will utilize SteamVR Tracking and, ostensibly, the OpenVR platform. When Valve set out to build their OpenVR platform, they hoped to design it in such a way that the...

HTC Confirms Vive Tracker and Deluxe Audio Strap Prices and Pre-order Dates

HTC announced the new accessories, the Vive Tracker and Deluxe Audio Strap, back at CES 2017 earlier this year but didn't provide pricing or release date info more specific than Q2. At $100 for each accessory, the pricing falls...

Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC

This short but ingenious video snippet from eye-tracking specialists Tobii was built to tease a social VR demo they've been working on for GDC next week. It aptly highlights the subtle yet striking enhancements that eye tracking may being...

ARM and SMI to Showcase New Mobile VR Eye-Tracking Demo at GDC

ARM Holdings and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) are teaming up at GDC to showcase the potential of powerful mobile GPUs, eye-tracking and foveated rendering technologies in a new made-for-VR demo that will debut at GDC next week. ARM, one of the world's...

Qualcomm & Road to VR Industry Mixer Kicks Off GDC 2017 Next Week

Qualcomm and Road to VR are teaming up to kick off next week's GDC 2017 with a gathering of VR and AR industry insiders. If you're attending GDC 2017, join Qualcomm and Road to VR Monday evening, February 27th, at...
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