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‘Tetris Effect’ Arrives on Oculus Quest Today

Tetris Effect (2018) first released on PlayStation 4 and PSVR in late 2018, later coming to PC via the Epic Store, which included support for SteamVR headsets. Now the award-winning stacker puzzle game is available on Oculus Quest starting...

‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Preview – A Compelling Take on VR Stealth, but Comfort Challenges Could Muddy...

The premise of Phantom: Covert Ops almost sounds ridiculous at first blush: you're a special forces dude in a tactical kayak who is slinking around the waterways of an old Russian base. But don't let the silinees of a...

Co-op VR Cooking Game ‘Cook-out: A Sandwich Tale’ Coming to Rift & Quest This Year

Resolution Games, the Stockholm-based studio behind Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs (2019), Bait! (2016) and Acron: Attack of the Squirrels! (2019), today unveiled a short slice of gameplay for its next multiplayer VR game, Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale. Update (May...

Unreal Engine is Now Royalty-free for the First $1 Million in Revenue

The Unreal Engine 5 tech demo on PS5 wasn't the only news Epic Games revealed today. The company also announced a change to the pricing structure of Unreal Engine which waives royalties on the first $1 million of project...
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Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo on PS5 Shows Where Next-gen Graphics are Headed

Epic Games today revealed a PS5 tech demo built with Unreal Engine 5, the next-gen version of the company's game engine. With new features for advanced lighting and unprecedented geometric detail, Unreal Engine 5 hopes to enable a generational...
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After Multiple Delays, ‘Iron Man VR’ for PSVR Finally Has a Firm Release Date

Camouflaj, the studio behind PlayStation VR exclusive Marvel's Iron Man VR, had initially intended for its high-flying super hero adventure to arrive on PSVR back in February. After a subsequent delay, which pushed the launch back to May 15th,...

‘Supernatural’ Review – Fun Gameplay, Breathtaking Visuals, But Hefty Entry Price

There's no better moment than now to find a reason to get up and moving, which is probably why acclaimed AR/VR studio Within launched its at-home VR fitness app Supernatural (2020). The gameified fitness app will get your heart...

Miniature ‘Beat Saber’ Concept Offers a Peek into the Future of AR Games

Oculus released optical hand-tracking on Quest as an experimental feature late last year, and ever since developers have been showing off their own unique and creative ways of integrating users hands into VR. Yet again we look at developer Daniel Beauchamp for...

Retro-inspired Adventure ‘Pixel Ripped 1995’ Comes to PSVR Today

Pixel Ripped 1995 (2020), the retro-gaming inspired VR adventure from indie creators ARVORE, launched on Quest and PC VR headsets late last month. Now the studio is bringing the acclaimed title to PSVR today in the US, with availability in Europe...
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Developer Reveals How Live Actors Sneak into the ‘The Under Presents’, and When You Can Find...

The Under Presents is a genre-defying VR experience with a curious secret: from time to time some of its characters are puppeteered by real people, and if you're lucky, you could be part of the show. Created by Tender Claws,...
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Etee Finger-tracking VR Controller Kickstarter Concludes with Over $110K in Funding

London-based hardware startup TG0 launched a Kickstarter campaign earlier last month for the Etee dev kit, a VR controller with integrated SteamVR Tracking. TG0 positions the controller's button-less design and finger tracking as its main attractions. Update (May 11th, 2020):...

HTC Vive Pro Full Kit Now Comes with ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ for Free in Europe

It looks like HTC is making a final push to relieve itself of Vive Pro stock in Europe, as the company is including a copy of Valve's critically-acclaimed VR title Half-Life: Alyx (2020) with purchase of the full kit. The Europe-only...

This ‘Beat Saber’ Project Uses AI to Generate Custom Beat Maps for Any Song

Manually creating beat maps for your favorite songs in Beat Saber (2018) requires a bit of know-how and time. If you're looking for a quick and surprisingly effective solution to automatically creating beat maps for any song, look no further...

Analysis: An Estimated 58 Million Steam Users Now Have VR Ready Graphics Cards

High PC hardware requirements are one reason why VR is often touted as being highly expensive, but as GPUs have gotten more powerful and cheaper over time, more people than ever have 'VR Ready' hardware, even if they didn't...

Hologate Wants Its New VR Arcade Hygiene Standards to Inspire Confidence in a Wary Public

As businesses begin to reopen, it's becoming more and more clear that the out-of-home entertainment industry needs to adapt in a major way if it wants to move forward. Inspiring confidence in the cleanliness of VR equipment donned by the...
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