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‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Tops ‘Fortnite’ and ‘Warzone’ with 300K Concurrent Twitch Viewers on Launch Day
Half-Life: Alyx beat out major titles like Fortnite and League of Legends in concurrent Twitch viewers on the game's launch day.
Half-Life: Alyx became one of gaming's most watched titles on Twitch yesterday. With 300K peak concurrent viewers (according to SteamDB data) the...
SteamVR Update Improves Tracking Performance for Oculus Quest
A SteamVR beta update today improved tracking when used with Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.
Oculus Link allows Quest to be used just like a PC VR headset. While this makes it easy to play Oculus PC games, it also...
‘Echo Arena’ for Oculus Quest Heads Into Closed Alpha Next Week
Echo VR has been available on the Rift platform for some time now, and it appears Quest users will be able to get their first taste of its zero-G team sport, 'Echo Arena', in a closed alpha soon.
Kicking off into closed...
You Can Get a 26 Foot Oculus Link Cable for $34 With an Active Extender
Oculus Link allows Oculus Quest to become a PC VR headset by tethering to a VR ready PC. While Oculus sells its own (quite expensive) Oculus Link cable, any appropriately high performance USB 3.0 cable will work. Here's an...
‘Tilt Brush’ Update Adds Direct Sketchfab Export Function
Tilt Brush (2016), the VR art app from Google, now has the ability to directly export VR creations to Sketchfab, the popular online repository for 3D models.
Tilt Brush has had the ability to import from Sketchfab for some time now, although...
Subtitles & Single Controller Mode Among ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Accessibility Options
Valve is working on a 'Single Controller Mode' among its accessibility options for Half-Life: Alyx so that players who can only operate one controller can complete the game in its entirety.
In an effort to ensure as many people as...
Rhythm Game ‘Synth Riders’ Gets Cross-platform Multiplayer in New Update
Synth Riders (2018), the VR rhythm game from Kluge Interactive, initially launched on PC VR and Oculus Quest as a single-player game. Now, the studio has released a cross-platform multiplayer mode that lets you create private and public lobbies for...
PSVR MOBA ‘Megalith’ to Launch on PC VR Headsets Soon
Disruptive Games announced that Megalith (2019), its first-person MOBA for PSVR, is headed to PC VR headsets soon.
First launched on PSVR in January 2019, Megalith brings classic hero shooter-style combat to virtual reality in a 2v2 arena battle. With five...
NVIDIA Adds VRSS Support to Five More Games Including ‘Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’
Last month NVIDIA introduced a Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS) feature for its RTX graphics cards. The feature applies supersampling in supported VR games only where it matters most to save GPU resources. A new driver released today adds VRSS...
‘The Room: A Dark Matter’ Coming to All Major VR Headsets in Late March, Trailer Here
Fireproof Games, the studio behind popular puzzle title The Room (2014), today announced its first VR entry into the franchise—The Room: A Dark Matter—is slated to arrive next month on PC VR headsets, Oculus Quest, and PSVR.
Fireproof says in a tweet...
Hellish VR Shooter ‘A-Tech Cybernetic’ is Making Its Way to PSVR Next Month
Hungary-based indie studio XREAL Games today announced its Early Access VR shooter, A-Tech Cybernetic VR, is headed to PSVR sometime next month.
XREAL developer Daniel Nyirfa took to the PSVR subreddit today, commenting that although translating the PC VR game to the PSVR...
‘Bizarre Barber’ is a Surreal VR Game About Cutting Hair in a Post-apocalyptic Subway
Brooklyn-based studio Synesthetic Echo is nearly ready to release a charmingly weird new title that tasks you with snipping away at mutant mops tops in an otherworldly subway platform.
Called Bizarre Barber, the hair-styling game is set to release on Steam and...
Humble VR Bundle Offers Up ‘Superhot’, ‘Space Pirate Trainer’, ‘Moss’ and More for $15
Recently picked up a PC VR headset and looking to add a handful of top rated VR games to your library? Between now and February 25th a special Humble VR Bundle is offering up Cosmic Trip, Smashbox Arena, Gorn, Budget...
‘Space Channel 5 VR’ Headed to PSVR This Month, PC VR & Quest Versions TBA
Space Channel 5 (1999) first launched on Dreamcast and PS2 over two decades ago, and now the long-dormant franchise is ready to reemerge on PSVR headsets this month with Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash!
Originally slated to launch...
Valve Plans to Release “SteamVR 2.0” This Year
Heading toward the release of Half-Life: Alyx in March, Valve has been steadily improving its SteamVR software to be more stable and easier to use. Now the company is teasing the forthcoming release of "SteamVR 2.0" sometime this year.
While...



















