‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’ Arrives on Quest 3: Upgraded Gameplay But Downgraded Graphics
‘Skydance’s BEHEMOTH’ Adds Over 700 Fixes in Second Major Patch, Now Live on All Platforms
Skydance’s Behemoth (2024) didn’t launch without its fair share of issues late last year, something developer Skydance Games hopes to nail down in its latest patch, which is being addressed in over 700 community-sourced fixes.
‘Superhot’ Spiritual Successor ‘Action Hero’ Gets New Horror Level & Arcade Mode in Latest Update
Fast Travel Games released an update today to its Superhot-inspired VR shooter, Action Hero (2024), which includes a spooky new level and an arcade game mode.
Google Confirms Android XR Allows Passthrough Camera Access: an Important Tool for MR Devs
Developers of mixed reality games have been clamoring for passthrough camera access on Quest for a while now, something now-departed Meta VP of XR Mark Rabkin said would come with the release of a new camera Passthrough API sometime in early 2025. Now, Google has confirmed that Android XR includes access to passthrough cameras, letting developers fine tune their mixed reality experiences from the get-go.
Claymation Adventure ‘The Midnight Walk’ Coming to PSVR 2 & PC VR in May, Gameplay Here
MoonHood’s upcoming adventure game The Midnight Walk is officially headed to PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets on May 8th, 2025.
PSVR 2 Holiday Sales Volume Grew Massively Year-over-year on Amazon
A big sale on PSVR 2 pushed the headset’s holiday sales volume on Amazon US higher than might have been expected, selling nearly five times more than last year.
Oculus Founder’s Defense Company is Taking Over Microsoft’s Military AR Headset Project
Palmer Luckey’s defense company Anduril is taking over Microsoft’s beleaguered Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, which seeks to produce battlefield AR headsets for the United States Army.
PSVR 2 Gets Its First Game with Controller-less Hand-Tracking
Sony introduced hand-tracking support for PSVR 2 back in December, offering up the ability for developers to update their games and let players go hands-on thanks to the headset’s on-board tracking cameras. Now, beloved wizardry game Waltz of the Wizard (2019) is the first to implement hand-tracking on PSVR 2.
John Carmack Pushed Microsoft to Make VR Fan Ports of ‘Quake’ & ‘DOOM’ Official, But Was Denied
Team Beef’s unofficial VR ports of classic Id Software games are undoubtedly fan favorites, letting you go head-first into a rash of ’90s retro titles like the original DOOM. Now, Id Software co-founder and former Oculus CTO John Carmack says he tried lobbying the Microsoft-owned studio for the chance to get those ports offered as official VR versions on Quest, but was unfortunately denied.
Meta Eyes Free-to-Play Future as Quest Userbase Changes with Wave of New Owners
Meta’s metaverse ambitions are evolving rapidly, with younger users and mainstream consumers reshaping the Quest platform over the course of 2024, according to Samantha Ryan, VP of Metaverse Content, which could see free-to-play content flourish as a result.
Ex-Oculus CTO: ‘Beat Saber was much more important to VR’s growth than Half-Life: Alyx’
John Carmack, former CTO of Oculus and legendary programmer, isn’t shy when it comes to voicing his opinions on all things XR. To Carmack, Meta’s block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) was “far more important than Half-Life: Alyx” in pushing adoption of the medium.
Veteran VR Studio nDreams Condenses Two Studios into One, With Layoffs for Some
Veteran VR developer and publisher nDreams announced it’s opened an internal studio, called ‘Compass’, after having closed both its nDreams Studio Orbital and nDreams Studio in September.
Is Vision Pro Worth Buying in 2025? Our No-nonsense Recommendation
Vision Pro, Apple’s very first headset, just turned one year old. Now that we’re into 2025, is it still worth buying? Read on for our no-nonsense recommendation.
