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‘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...
Hands-on: ‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Boasts Smart VR Design and Big Potential
At E3 2019 this week, I got a chance to go hands-on with Phantom: Covert Ops, an Oculus Studios exclusive in development by nDreams. The game plays out over the course of a single night, and follows a special operative...
With Room-scale Tracking & No Tether, ‘Racket Fury: Table Tennis’ Feels Great on Quest
Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR has been a solid VR ping pong offering for existing headsets since its release in 2017. The game is confirmed to be launching alongside Oculus Quest, which brings with it some interesting advantages which make...
Hands-on: Oculus Quest is Ready and Able to Handle ‘Beat Saber’s’ Highest Difficulty
Beyond being a great VR game, Beat Saber has inadvertently turned out to be an excellent benchmark of controller tracking performance, and thus a great test for the upcoming Oculus Quest standalone headset, the first from the company to feature inside-out...
Hands-on: ‘No Man’s Sky’ in VR Promises a Galaxy Full of Possibilities, with Friends
After years of requests, No Man's Sky is coming to VR this Summer. With a massive procedurally generated galaxy to explore and a range of ways to play, the scale of No Man's Sky is something that hasn't yet...
Exclusive: ‘Audica’ Preview & Track Reveal – Blast the Beat
Audica is the intriguing upcoming VR "rhythm shooter" from veteran rhythm gaming studio Harmonix. Today we've got a preview of the game through an exclusive first look at one of the 10 tracks that will ship with the game's...
VR is the Face of Future Entertainment at a Major San Jose Cinemark Theater
Cinemark, a major US movie theater chain, this week welcomes the SPACES VR attraction to its Century 20 Oakridge theater in San Jose, CA. The attraction, which currently offers a Terminator Salvation VR experience for up to four players,...
Zero Latency’s Next Title is Tackling the Challenges of Location-based PVP
Zero Latency is an Australia-based creator of a VR attraction platform and content. Since its founding in 2013, the company has launched five co-op VR games supporting up to eight players. The company's latest game, Sol Raiders, is the first...
‘Ovation’ is a Powerful VR Public Speaking Sim Designed for Professional Training
In my years covering VR, I've seen several attempts at public speaking simulators, but Ovation, a new app released this week supporting the Rift and Vive, is by far the most comprehensive. It offers up not just an immersive public...
‘FlyInside Flight Simulator’ Preview – A Promising Start in VR-native Flying
FlyInside FSX, the crowdfunded VR plugin for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (2006), was built well before first-party VR motion controllers existed, developed back in the DK2-era of 2015 as an ad hoc way of jumping into an already highly-detailed flight...
Philip K. Dick-inspired VR Story ‘The Great C’ Brings Expert Cinematic Flair
Secret Location, developers behind Blasters of the Universe (2017), today launched a Philip K. Dick-inspired VR adaptation of The Great C, a sci-fi short story that follows a tribe of humans oppressed by an artificially intelligent overlord.
The titular VR experience...
Hands-on: Upcoming VR Shooter ‘Telefrag’ Boasts Impossible, Escher-style Arenas
Anshar Studios, the developers behind Detached (2017), showed off a new arena shooter at Gamescom this year. Dubbed Telefrag VR, the game (still in pre-alpha) pits you against another player in a futuristic, gladiatorial-style battle taking place in impossible spaces.
Set...
Hands-on: ‘Population: ONE’ is Poised to Become VR’s First Great Battle Royale
BigBox VR, the developers behind VR multiplayer shooter Smashbox Arena (2017), are making their way into new territory soon with their upcoming battle royale shooter Population: ONE. The studio showed off at this year's Gamescom what promises to be a full-featured...
Preview: ‘Space Junkies’ Feels Like VR’s Spiritual Successor to ‘Unreal Tournament’
Unreal Tournament (1999) was one of the staple arena shooters of my youth. It's simple; find the best gun you can, stock up on as much health and armor as possible, always keep moving until you die, respawn, rinse...
Hands-on: ‘Firewall: Zero Hour’ Replicates a Familiar Shooter Formula in VR with Deadly Skill
Ever since the early days of PSVR, fans have been hoping for games like Counter Strike or Rainbow Six—the sort of team-based shooters most gamers are familiar with one way or the other, be it on PC or console. Now...




















