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‘Angry Birds VR’ Review — Redefining a Mobile Powerhouse for the Virtual Age

With several mobile titles in Rovio's Angry Birds series using the winning formula of 'fling the bird to kill the pig', I wasn't sure what I was in for with Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs—an honest-to-goodness game, or a cleverly...

‘Beat Saber’ Expert+ Difficulty Levels Come to PSVR, “a lot, lot of music coming”

Prepare to sweat (and probably curse) because Beat Games, the studio behind block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), today released a new Expert+ mode to its suite of existing songs on PSVR. Along with it, the update brings a new option...

Hands-on: Vive Focus 6DOF Controllers ‘Chirp’ & ‘FinchShift’ Tested Back-to-Back

Vive Wave is HTC's open platform that offers interoperability between several classes of mobile VR headsets and accessories, something the company hopes will help unite a fragmented market. Although with greater choice in VR accessories comes the task of...

Exclusive: HP’s Next-gen VR Headset Aims to Raise the Bar on Clarity & Comfort

Having launched its first VR headset in late 2017, alongside a handful of similar headsets as part of Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality platform, HP is preparing to take its next step with the launch of a new headset that...

MMORPG ‘OrbusVR’ Expansion ‘Reborn’ to Launch in April

Orbus Online, the studio behind OrbusVR, says the game's long-awaited 'Reborn' expansion is now set to launch sometime in April. OrbusVR is a made-for-VR MMORPG that launched into Early Access on Steam (Vive, Rift) and the Oculus Store (Rift) in December 2017. As...
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Oculus Unveils Viking Melee Adventure ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ for Rift, Trailer Here

Wondering what Oculus and Sanzaru Games were hiding when they teased their next Rift exclusive a few days ago? Well, now we know: it's called Asgard's Wrath, and it's poised to toss you head-over-heels into a Norse-inspired world of melee combat,...

10 Great VR Games on Sale Now for Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale

Steam's Lunar New Year Sale is here, and with it comes another wallet-punishing avalanche of VR games that might have you finally plonking down those last Steam Wallet cards still sitting around from the holidays. We've rounded up 10 great...

Sword & Sorcery Dungeon Crawler ‘The Mage’s Tale’ Lands on PSVR Today

The Mage’s Tale (2018), the first-person sword & sorcery dungeon crawler from The Bard's Tale series developers inXile Entertainment, has officially landed on PSVR today. Update (February 5th, 2019): The Mage's Tale is now available on the PlayStation Store, priced at $30. Since...
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Oculus Goes Behind the Scenes with Chris O’Dowd in VR Film ‘The Evolution of the Testicles’

In honor of World Cancer Day, Oculus unveiled some behind the scenes footage of their latest VR project highlighting testicular cancer, The Evolution of the Testicles. Starring Chris O'Dowd (The IT Crowd, Bridesmaids, Thor: The Dark World), the short 3D...

HoloLens Co-inventor & AR/VR Pioneer Avi Bar-Zeev Has Left Apple

Avi Bar-Zeev, HoloLens co-inventor and longtime AR/VR stalwart, has left Apple, Variety reports. Bar-Zeev helped found and invent the core technologies behind HoloLens at Microsoft, assembling the company's very first AR prototypes, demos and UX concepts. According to his LinkenIn bio, Bar-Zeev...
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‘The Invisible Hours’ Studio Announces ‘Groundhog Day VR’, Coming Later This Year

Groundhog Day (1993), the iconic '90s film starring Bill Murray, is getting its very own full-length VR game soon—well, sort of. Dubbed Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son, you'll be able to jump back into the world of Punxsutawney,...

VR Headset Growth on Steam Makes Biggest Leap Yet, Eclipses Linux Steam Users

It appears that the 2018 holiday shopping season was one of the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released today from Valve shows VR making its single biggest leap yet, on a path toward 1 million...

‘Mosh Pit Simulator’ Early Access Review — Terribly Hilarious, Hilariously Terrible

Indie developer Sos Sosowski admits he creates "terrible" video games like his old school point-and-click game McPixel (2012). And while there's certainly a thick layer of objective terribleness slathered on top of Mosh Pit Simulator, after playing around with the physics-based sandbox...

Ubisoft’s VR Shooter ‘Space Junkies’ Comes to 100+ Arcades Ahead of Launch

Ubisoft today announced in a blogpost that a special arcade edition of their upcoming VR shooter Space Junkies has rolled out to "100+ arcades" around the world. To celebrate, Ubisoft is collaborating with the Virtual Athletics League to throw a Space...

Saab to Further Develop VR Rocket Launcher Simulator

Saab, a global defense and security company (and former parent company of the car manufacturer of the same name), says that it will further develop a VR experience designed to demonstrate a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher offered by the company. Saab...
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