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Hands-On: ‘Star Shelter’ – Survival in Zero Gravity
Stranded in space with just an AI voice and your broken ship for company, you must scavenge for materials to survive, searching random debris floating nearby using motion-based, zero-gravity locomotion. Needing some polish but highly playable in its current...
Hands-On: ‘Overturn’ is a Serviceable Fast-paced VR Shooter But Missing a Standout Feature
Described as an “action-puzzle adventure game”, Overturn’s puzzle elements play a secondary role; the game weighs heavily on fast, first-person action, combining projectile weapons and frantic melee combat with fists, shields, and blades. Overturn is available now on Steam...
Hands-on: Sony’s ‘Blood & Truth’ for PSVR is Aiming for AAA Scope, and Off to a...
Sony's London Studio—who built the well received VR Worlds experiences for PSVR—is back. This time around the studio isn't building a slew of PSVR samples, but rather a AAA scope action shooter in the same vein as the acclaimed...
With Facebook’s 💰, Oculus Is Fending off Old Enemies, Former Friends, and New Foes
Blink and you might have missed it—a lot has happened in the VR landscape in the last few months. At Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new...
‘The Gallery – Ep. 2 : Heart of the Emberstone’ Review – Longer, Stronger and Well...
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone (2017) comes a year and a half after Call of the Starseed (2016), episode one in the narrative-based adventure puzzle game series. As a successor to one of the first room-scale games in existence, the...
Acer Windows VR Headset Review
Microsoft's 'Windows Mixed Reality' platform has finally landed and the first batch of supported VR headsets are hitting the streets. I toured around the new Windows Fall Creators Update—which builds AR and VR support deep into the OS—with the...
Where to Try Windows VR Headsets, Vive, PSVR, Rift, Gear VR, and Daydream for Free
With high-end VR systems priced at hundreds of dollars, it can be difficult to make the plunge before knowing what the experience is actually like. Luckily, it's easy to find yourself a free demo of any VR major system...
Oculus: ‘More than 8 VR Titles Have Made $1M+ in the Oculus store alone’
For VR to succeed in the consumer space, an ecosystem of developers making content that users want to buy is an absolute must. Oculus for its part has attempted to kickstart that ecosystem by investing hefty sums in content...
Hands-on: Oculus Santa Cruz Prototype II & Controllers
Today at Oculus Connect 4, the company's annual developer conference, Oculus revealed the Project Santa Cruz 'Prototype 2' standalone VR headset, including 6DOF motion controllers. Though it might not look obviously different at a distance than the original prototype...
‘Cloudborn’ Hands-on – Reaching for Intuitive & Comfortable Locomotion
Cloudborn is an indie first-person VR exploration game, currently available on Steam Early Access, where the player is tasked with ‘cleansing the corruption’ by traversing the world to reach 'cores' using an intuitive climbing mechanic. Unfortunately, the “melancholic journey of...
‘ARKTIKA.1’ Review – A Gorgeous VR Shooter, Plain and Simple
Arktika.1 is a first-person VR shooter that makes more than a few smart choices in its design, something that may have you thinking twice before dismissing its admittedly limited node-based teleportation style lock, stock, and barrel (holographic sight and flashlight too)....
‘ARKTIKA.1’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from 4A Games
ARKTIKA.1, now in development for more than two years, is shaping up to be a gritty VR shooter with a AAA look and feel. Ahead of the game's launch on the Oculus Rift we spoke with the game's executive...
The 5 Best VR Racing Sims for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
As one of the first game genres to embrace VR, sim racing has successfully transitioned from the ‘very early adopter’ stage (using Oculus development kits) to the ‘early adopter’ stage (the first-generation consumer headsets). Now that the majority of...
Hands-on: Google’s New Daydream View Headset With Pixel 2 & Pixel 2 XL
Google today announced the next iteration of their Daydream View headset for virtual reality on Android. We highlighted the changes and improvements in our announcement article, but how does it handle in practice?
After watching Google unveiled a range of...
Hands-on: Samsung Odyssey Windows VR Headset & Controllers
Microsoft and Samsung formally announced the Odyssey Windows VR headset today, positioning it as the "premium" option among the Windows VR headsets, with a range of features not found on the other headsets, and the top price point. The...




















