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‘Gary the Gull’ Takes First Steps into Character-driven Interactivity in VR
Gary the Gull is an interactive short film featuring a feathered conman—a dirty, two-faced lunch-stealing swindler. Ok. I'm not really angry, partly because both Gary and my picnic lunch aren't technically real, but the people behind Gary the Gull want to make...
New Job Simulator Trailer Reveals Final Job: The Automotive Mechanic
Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator is coming to the Oculus Rift with Oculus Touch support this year and launches alongside (and indeed in the box) with the HTC Vive. This latest trailer for the game reveals the fourth and final...
Valve’s ‘The Lab’ is a Wondrous Playground Full of VR Toys on HTC Vive
Road to VR's Scott Hayden goes hands on with Valve's latest virtual reality experience, a collection of experiments in immersive gaming known as 'The Lab'.
In the first public showing of the Lab, we got a chance to jump into...
‘Battlezone’ Gets New Gameplay Video, Heading to PlayStation VR as Launch Title
Battlezone will be among the first PlayStation VR games you'll be able to play when you plug your shiny new PlayStation VR headset into the PS4 this October. A new gameplay video shows the launch sequence for the 'Cobra'...
Preview: ‘Eagle Flight’ is a Kinetic Thrill Ride That Surprisingly Doesn’t Make Me Want to Vomit
Eagle Flight, the upcoming multiplayer game from Ubisoft Montreal, looks to be nearing finalization with the latest build we saw at the pre-GDC Oculus Gameday event. And while the game sounds like it ought to make you want to barf, we've finally got a...
Preview: ‘Dead & Buried’ Action Packed Multiplayer Could be the Killer App Oculus Touch Needs
After playing the latest build of Dead & Buried, the gun-slinging action game from Oculus Studios, I walked away disappointed. Disappointed that I would have to wait many months still for Oculus to release their Touch controllers so that I'd be...
Preview: ‘VR Sports Challenge’ Turns You into the MVP You Were Always Meant to Be
Oculus presented a bevy of games at their pre-GDC Gameday event, some launching on the 28th of March alongside the Rift and some destined for Touch, the company's natural input controller heading to consumers in Q3 of this year....
Preview: ‘Damaged Core’ Takes Teleportation to a New Extreme in a Fast-Paced FPS
Damaged Core is a first-person shooter from High Voltage Software that's offering a unique solution to one of the biggest problems facing first-person games in VR today—locomotion. And while the game's own brand of teleportation may take more than a minute...
Preview: ‘Chronos’ is a Masterfully Directed Adventure That I Can’t Wait to Dig Into
Games like Chronos seem to be a rarity these days: a narrative-driven action-adventure with a rich world, challenging combat, and no reward-driven feedback loops. After just 20 minutes of what the developers tell me will be a near 12 hour...
PlayStation VR: What You Do and Don’t Get in the Box
The PlayStation VR headset will be available from October 2016 for $399, but what do you get for your 400 bucks? That how does what's missing cost you?
As an additional piece of hardware dedicated to gaming, the PlayStation VR...
Hands-on: Ubisoft’s First Social VR Game ‘Werewolves Within’ Launching this Fall
Red Storm Entertainment, a North Carolina-based Ubisoft studio, is jumping into the world of social VR with Werewolves Within, a unique take on the Russian social deduction game Mafia (also known as Werewolf). We went hands on with the first ever...
AMD Launches ‘Radeon Pro Duo’ Dual GPU Card, Targets VR Content Creators
AMD has unveiled what it's calling the worlds most powerful graphics card, the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo, and it's targeting the product at virtual reality content creators.
Running consumer virtual reality applications and games is already challenging enough in...
Hands-on: Star Wars ‘Trials on Tatooine’ Let Me Wield the Iconic Lightsaber
Lucasfilm has revealed a new HTC Vive experiment called Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine, which finally lets us wield the Jedi's iconic lightsaber. Oh, and the Millennium Falcon makes a visit.
Over the years we've seen a number of fan-made virtual...
OptiTrack Shows Off ‘Void’ Style Tracking with VR Basketball Experience at GDC
OptiTrack are well known in industry circles for their specialist motion capture technology, but at GDC this year, the company is turning its attention to wide area virtual reality experiences as it puts it tracking technology to task in...
Samsung’s New Headphones Trick Your Inner Ear to Move You in VR
Samsung's to bring a new set of experimental headphones to SXSW that uses electrical impulses to fool your inner ear into thinking your body is physically moving. What's more, they seem to be pitching the new headgear for virtual...




















