GDC 2018
‘Budget Cuts’ Sees Two Week Delay, Now Launching May 31st
Two years in the making, Budget Cuts has remained almost completely off the radar after briefly surfacing back in 2016, but this week at GDC 2018 the game has reemerged with fresh details, including a May 31st release date, which,...
Sony Experimenting with Advanced Livestreaming Features for PSVR, Mixed Reality Views
Speaking during a session at GDC 2018 last month, Richard Forster, Senior Team Lead at Sony's Research & Development West group, chronicled a range of explorations in advanced livestreaming and sharing features for PSVR.
Today PSVR users can access the usual...
4 Minutes of Boxing Glory in ‘Creed’ VR, Gameplay Video Here
Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018), debuted a new single player VR game this year on the GDC expo floor, an upcoming arcade boxing title that puts you in the shoes of Adonis Creed, son of Apollo Creed...
‘Electronauts’ Turns Anyone Into an Electronic Music Artist, Gameplay Video Here
Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018), showed off Electronauts at GDC this year, their upcoming VR music creation app for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that makes DJ'ing so easy that even the least musically talented person...
Oculus Affirms Commitment to Rift, Believes PC Will Lead the VR Industry for the Next Decade
Over the last year, Oculus' public hardware ambitions have mostly centered around their upcoming standalone headsets (Oculus Go and Santa Cruz), with little to say about what's next for the company's PC VR headset, the Rift. Addressing a small...
Hands-on: ‘Beat Saber’ is Every Bit as Fun as It Looks
At GDC this year, I had a chance to step into Beat Saber, an upcoming rhythm game from Czech Republic-based indie studio Hyperbolic Magnetism that tasks you with slicing flying cubes with lightsabers to electronic dance music. If that sounds cool to...
‘Catan VR’ Launches with Cross-play for Rift and Gear VR, Headed to Oculus Go
Based on Klaus Teuber’s popular board game Settlers of Catan (1995), the VR version of Catan is available now on Oculus Rift and Gear VR, and will be a launch title for Oculus Go. The game features cross-play multiplayer,...
Kat VR Announces New ‘Mini’ Version of Its VR Treadmill, Kickstarter Coming Soon
Kat VR, a China-based company known for their crowdfunded Kat Walk VR treadmill, are hitting Kickstarter again soon with a new design that promises to accommodate smaller spaces.
The company says their new Kat Walk Mini has "a much smaller...
AR-Enhanced ‘Warhammer’ Trading Card Game to Launch July 2018
Warhammer Age of Sigmar Champions is an upcoming physical and digital trading card game coming to iOS, Android, and PC in July. Announced at GDC 2018, the augmented reality experience uses PlayFusion’s proprietary ‘Enhanced Reality Engine’ to unlock gameplay...
Oculus to Scrap Trackpads on Santa Cruz Controllers in Favor of Buttons & Sticks
At GDC 2018 this week, Oculus revealed some additional details surrounding their high-end standalone VR headset prototype, Santa Cruz. Among those details, the company plans to replace the current controllers' trackpads with buttons and sticks, much like the Rift.
Santa...
Magic Leap Shows Prototype Headset Progress Since 2014
At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day.
Slowly but surely, the famously secretive augmented reality company, is opening the shutters...
GDC 2018: Magic Leap ‘Developing for Spatial Computing’ Session, Live Blog @ 4:00PM PT
Magic Leap is hosting a sponsored session today at GDC 2018 which promises a “deep dive” on developing for augmented reality. Having released their SDK earlier this week, we’re hoping to hear the company talk more specifically about what...
GDC 2018 ‘Day 3’ Roundup – Oculus Go Details, Vive Focus Global Launch, New Qualcomm VRDK,...
Here’s a roundup of news from the third day of our GDC 2018 coverage. Qualcomm's latest reference headset supports Vive Wave, HTC Vive Focus international launch, Oculus talks about their 2018 ecosystem, announces 'Positional Timewarp', reveals new Oculus Go...
Oculus Home to Get Multiplayer & User-generated Content This Summer
At GDC 2018 this year, Oculus released word during their 'Inside Oculus 2018' developer talk that Home, the customizable user space for Rift, is gaining the ability to host multiple players as well as user-generated content.
The new Home space...
Our First Look at Oculus Go – Aiming for the Accessibility Sweet Spot
Oculus Go was announced months ago, but it wasn't until this week at GDC 2018 that the company actually made the headset available to try.
At the Oculus booth today we got our first good look at Oculus Go, the...