‘Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot’ is a New Standalone VR Title Coming From Bethesda in 2019
Today during Bethesda’s E3 Showcase, the company announced a new standalone VR title: Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot, due to launch in 2019.
Xbox Boasts Investment in Future Tech, But Still Silent on VR After Backpedaling
Back in 2016, at the E3 reveal of the Xbox ‘Project Scorpio’ (which would go on to become the company’s flagship Xbox One X), Microsoft said the console would bring “high fidelity VR” to Xbox. But after backpedaling from those plans, today marked the second E3 without a peep from the company about VR on the Xbox One X, even while touting a deep investment in the future of the platform, and continuing a VR push on its PC platform that’s isolated from Xbox.
VR Puzzle ‘Salary Man Escape’ Coming to PSVR June 26th
Salary Man Escape is an upcoming single-player PSVR game from Red Accent Studios and Oasis Games that forces you to help your little salary man escape the office by traversing through a wide range of physics-based puzzles.
Oculus Rift Deal Offers $75 Game Credit or $50 Gift Card
Oculus is offering a ‘Dad & Grads’ deal on the Rift: now through 11:59 pm PT on June 16, you can buy a new Rift and get $75 worth of store credit from Oculus, or a $50 gift card from several retailers.
‘Beat Saber’ to Land on PSVR Later This Year, Studio Teases New Track
Hyperbolic Magnetism, the indie studio behind Beat Saber (2018), today announced that the hit PC VR rhythm game is headed to PlayStation VR headsets later this year.
Apple Adding “plug and play support” for Vive Pro in MacOS Mojave
At Apple’s WWDC conference this week, the company announced that the Vive Pro will be fully supported on the newest version of MacOS, ‘Mojave’, soon to launch in public beta and available widely later this year.
New Steam Guidelines to Allow All Controversial & Adult Content (as long as it’s legal)
Valve is about to adopt a whole new laissez-faire attitude to what content it will allow on Steam, which previously banned things like explicit adult content and what the company calls in their current guidelines things that are “patently offensive or intended to shock or disgust viewers.”
‘Rec Room’ Battle Royale Shooter ‘Rec Royale’ Now Live on All Supported Platforms
Rec Room, the free multiplatform social VR app, just got its long-awaited battle royale shooting game, Rec Royale. Now live on all supported platforms, you’ll be able to engage in some PUBG-style shootouts as you hang glide down to the map below in search of weapons, ammo and health potions.
‘Echo Combat’ Free Open Beta to Launch This Month, Full Release to Cost $10
Echo Combat, the VR shooter expansion to Ready at Dawn’s successful VR sports game Echo Arena, is heading into open beta this month. And unlike its sporty counterpart, which was released for free to all Oculus Rift users, the shooter is going to be priced at $10 when it releases.
Hands-on: ‘Echo Combat’ Brings High-Speed, Zero-G Shooter to VR in ‘Echo Arena’ Expansion
Ready at Dawn, the studio behind zero-g adventure Lone Echo (2017) and its companion multiplayer sports game Echo Arena (2017), held a closed beta session with their upcoming Oculus Rift expansion Echo Combat last week. Given a beefier-looking avatar and a few guns—reflective of my new goal of disintegrating the opposite team members with impunity—the game essentially presents you with a gametype that fans of Team Fortress 2 (2007) or Overwatch (2016) will instantly recognize: payload—push the cart on a track through the winding maze, or defend the advances of the cart by pushing it backwards and running down the clock.
Watch a Complete ‘Echo Combat’ Closed Beta Match
Developer Ready at Dawn recently hosted a closed beta of the upcoming Echo Combat, an expansion to Echo Arena, which brings a brand new objective-based FPS arena game into the mix, complete with various weapons and abilities. We’ve got footage of a complete match so that you can see how it all goes down.
Former PSVR Exclusive ‘Moss’ Now Available on Oculus Rift & HTC Vive
Moss (2018) first launched on PSVR back in February, but now indie studio Polyarc Games have today released the adorable VR platformer puzzle on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
One of Mobile VR’s Best Games, ‘Virtual Virtual Reality’, Now Available on Rift
Virtual Virtual Reality is one of mobile VR’s best games to date, and you can now play an enhanced version on the Oculus Rift.
To the Dismay of Its Audience, Magic Leap Livestream Dodges Key Questions
Years of Magic Leap’s hype-building seems for many to be turning from excitement to disappointment, as the company continues to evangelize its AR headset with little attempt to demonstrate what it’s actually like to use it. During the company’s latest livestream where it was teased that viewers would get to “meet Magic Leap One,” mundane details like power buttons and LEDs were talked about as the hosts dodged or ignored the audience’s most pressing questions.
