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Watch 20 Minutes of ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Gameplay
Sanzaru Games and Oculus Studios showed off a new demo for their upcoming melee adventure Asgard's Wrath at this year's E3. We got a chance to not only jump in to see more of the game's questing, but also get...
Viveport Has Earned a Second Chance Thanks to Infinity
HTC launched Viveport, their VR game marketplace, back in August 2016 to relatively little fanfare. It didn't boast any compelling exclusives or big draws when it came to content deals, and was notorious for being a buggy, unstable mess....
‘Beat Saber’ Scoring Explained – It’s All in the Technique
With the release of Oculus Quest, more and more players are jumping into Beat Saber. And while it's easy enough to cut cubes to the beat, there's a trick to achieving the highest score. Here's how scoring works in Beat...
Virtuix Debuts ‘VR Arena’ Attraction at Dave & Buster’s Austin Location
Virtuix, the company behind the VR treadmill Virtuix Omni, debuted their previously announced VR eSports attraction 'Omniverse VR Arena' at the Dave & Buster's location in Austin, Texas this past week.
The location-based attraction accommodates up to four players, and...
Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent
A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its...
Hands-on: ‘After the Fall’ is a Pretty Zombie Shooter That Doesn’t Understand Immersion
After the Fall is an upcoming co-op VR zombie shooter that promises to let groups of up to four players battle for survival within a zombie infested landscape. Revealed last week at E3 2019, the game's first demo offered...
Watch: ‘Beat Saber’ 360 Mode Feels like a New Way to Play
Developer Beat Games last week revealed a new '360 mode' for their VR hit Beat Saber. Notes can now come from all around the player instead of just straight ahead. While it feels like a fun new way to play,...
Hands-on: ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Shows Titanic Ambition & Visual Finesse
Backed by Oculus Studios, Sanzaru Games' next big title for Rift, Asgard's Wrath, doesn't have a release date yet, although at E3 this week I got a chance to try out the latest demo, which reveals more of the...
Studio Behind Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Raises $24 Million in Funding
Against Gravity, the studio behind the popular social VR game Rec Room, has raised an addition $24 million in venture capital across two investment rounds.
Speaking to TechCrunch, Against Gravity says that it has raised $24 million in venture funding in...
Oculus is Forcing the Removal of SteamVR Streaming from Quest App, Dev Says
The developer of Virtual Desktop, a Quest app which allows users to stream their PC desktop to the headset for use in VR, says that after the recent addition of a feature which allowed SteamVR games to be played on Quest,...
‘Lone Echo II’ Roughly 50% Larger Than Its Predecessor, E3 Demo Reveals New Gameplay
This week at E3 2019, Oculus is showing their first ever demo of Lone Echo II, the anticipated followup to 2017's Lone Echo. While the first game was an achievement in VR locomotion, interaction, and storytelling, Lone Echo II aims to...
‘Budget Cuts’ Studio Launches VR Gardening Sim ‘Garden of the Sea’ in Early Access, Trailer Here
Neat Corporation, the studio behind stealth VR game Budget Cuts (2018), unveiled a new VR project late last month called Garden of the Sea. The game, which puts you on a magical island where you tend to your garden, gather resources,...
‘LOW-FI’ is a Moody Cyberpunk Game Set in a Dark but Plausible Future
LOW-FI is an upcoming VR game from the veteran indie VR developer behind TECHNOLUST (2016). The game presents a dark but plausible future where most of the population lives in a VR simulation, while at the same time the city's poor...
Rebellion Unveils ‘Sniper Elite VR’ Gameplay Footage, PC VR & PSVR Confirmed
At E3 today, Rebellion unveiled some fresh gameplay footage and revealed more details behind Sniper Elite VR, the critically acclaimed shooter's first VR game. The studio also confirmed that PS Aim support is definitely coming to the PSVR version of...
Oculus Sold $5M in Quest Content in Two Weeks After Launch
You may have noticed Oculus Quest is sold out practically everywhere, and while it's not certain whether the company's standalone 6DOF headset is selling famously, or is simply the result of artificially limited quantities to generate hype à la Nintendo,...
