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‘Echo Arena’ Free Beta Weekend is Live – Competitive Zero-G Multiplayer
At E3 this month we learned that the intriguing multiplayer mode of Lone Echo will be spun out into its own game called Echo Arena. While both Lone Echo and Echo Arena launch on July 20th, the latter is in open beta...
Limited Time: Save $50 on HTC Vive, Get $50 Steam Credit & ‘Star Trek Bridge Crew’
As part of the Steam Summer Sale, HTC is offering a rare $50 discount on the Vive headset, along with a $50 Steam gift card to capitalize on VR deals during the sale. The bundle also includes the recently...
‘The SoulKeeper VR’ Gets August 15th Early Access Release Date, New Trailer
Since our preview with the graphically impressive VR RPG The SoulKeeper VR back in April, we’ve been looking forward to the launch of the game. Developer HELM Systems has finally announced that the game will launch in Early Access on...
Facebook Fights to Prevent Oculus Rift Sales Ban
In February, ZeniMax filed an injunction to request the worldwide blocking of sales of products that use Oculus software, which includes both Rift and Gear VR hardware, following a recent high-profile court case against Facebook/Oculus. According to a Bloomberg report, the...
HTC Teases More AAA VR Content on the Way
One of the biggest VR stories at E3 2017 was that Bethesda's Fallout 4 (2015), Doom (2016), and Skyrim (2011) are all coming to VR this year. VR gamers have been hungry for AAA content and it while Bethesda's announcement...
E3 2017: HTC & Intel to Offer High-end Wireless VR Solution in “Early 2018”
At Computex 2017, Intel’s Gregory Bryant demonstrated the company's wireless VR solution on stage. He claimed this was the first public showing of the HTC Vive using Intel's WiGig technology, and further confirms that HTC is bringing the product...
Japanese PSVR Game ‘No Heroes Allowed! VR’ to See Western Release
Sony today announced that PSVR title No Heroes Allowed! VR (aka What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord?), a quirky Japanese real-time strategy game exclusively for PlayStation VR, will be making a Western debut this fall.
First announced at the Tokyo Game Show...
‘Lone Echo’ Multiplayer Spinning Out Into Separate ‘Echo Arena’, Here’s The Trailer
Following the announcements today that Lone Echo's multiplayer mode will launch free for all Oculus Rift owners, developer Ready at Dawn has confirmed that the multiplayer mode has actually spun out into its own game, separate from Lone Echo.
Though initially conceived...
Linkin Park to Release VR Experience, Created by Spatialand and Intel
Starting off today's E3 fun, Intel announced that not only will upcoming VR title Lone Echo have a free multiplayer mode for all Oculus Rift owners, but that Linkin Park is releasing a VR experience next month.
With the help of...
Updated: Vive Deluxe Audio Strap Sells Out at Launch, Vive Pre Requires Conversion Kit
The hotly anticipated Vive Deluxe Audio Strap launched just yesterday and the initial stock has already been nabbed, apparently putting the unit out of stock in both the US and EU regions. HTC has also confirmed that the upgraded...
‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Gets 33% Price Cut Across All Headsets
EVE: Valkyrie (2016), one of the first games to launch on the Oculus Rift (and eventually found its way to PSVR and the HTC Vive), is getting a big price cut.
Eve: Valkyrie is a sci-fi spaceship dogfighting game that...
‘DiRT 4’ Launch Lacks VR Support but Codemasters Hasn’t Ruled It Out Just Yet
Codemasters’ new entry into their long-running rally game series launches this week for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Unlike its predecessor DiRT Rally, DiRT 4 currently features no VR support on PC or PSVR, but a future update is...
Here’s the Star Wars VR Demo Apple Showed During Their Keynote
At yesterday’s keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017, Apple revealed the new iMac Pro and updated 27” Retina iMac, both of which are VR-ready, along with a slew of other VR related product updates. John Knoll, chief...
‘Nemesis Perspective’ Pits VR Player vs. Screen Player in Asymmetric Multiplayer Gameplay
Evocat Games’ first title Nemesis Perspective is a two-player action game where one player uses a gamepad and traditional screen to operate a third-person hero character, while the other assumes the role of an ‘endgame boss’, towering over the hero...
NVIDIA’s New ‘Max-Q’ Laptops Are “as thin as a MacBook Air” and VR Ready
Starting June 27th, leading OEMs such as Clevo, ASUS, and MSI will begin to offer new high-performance Pascal-powered ‘Max-Q’ gaming laptops using GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 GPUs. Max-Q is NVIDIA's new holistic approach to notebook design, with claims of...
