A Round Table Discussion of Oculus Game Day Highlights

Road to VR co-founder Ben Lang and writer Scott Hayden attended the Oculus Game Days 2016 event on Sunday and joined me for a roundtable discussion about their launch title highlights, some analysis about the event, the future of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Oculus Names 30 Rift Launch Titles and Their Prices

Oculus' pre-GDC 'Game Days' event was an opportunity for the company to flaunt its substantial line up of original virtual reality content for the forthcoming Rift headset. But how many games will there be at launch and how much...

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...

PlayStationVR ‘Cinematic Mode’ Lets You Play Your PS4 Games in VR

Revealed alongside the international price and launch of the much awaited Sony PlayStationVR--slated for October 2016 at $399--CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Andrew House announced a 'cinematic mode' for PSVR. "With the headset on, users can also go into 'cinematic...

‘Star Wars Battlefront’ Experience Coming Exclusively to PlayStation VR

Sony's PlayStation VR press event at GDC today saw some long-awaited announcements, including price and a preview of a number of titles coming to the platform. Among them was the surprise announcement that a VR version of Battlefront will...