2023 Sections
Valve Affirms Continued Work on VR Games, Suggests First May Ship with Knuckles
With a history of developing some of the greatest games ever made—Half-Life, Portal, Counter Strike, Team Fortress, to name a few—the VR space has high hopes for the three VR games that the company has confirmed it's developing. But...
Long-delayed PSVR Game ‘Golem’ to Reemerge at PAX East Next Week
We weren't certain the PSVR title Golem would ever see the light of day after its lengthy delay. It wasn't until the studio assured us late last year that yes, the game was still in production well after its prospective March...
Valve Psychologist: Brain-computer Interfaces Are Coming & Could Be Built into VR Headsets
Valve's resident experimental psychologist Dr. Mike Ambinder took the stage at GDC 2019 today for his talk on the state of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and how they'll inform the future of game design. In his talk, Ambinder put forth...
Hands-on: ‘Shadow Point’ is a Clever Room-scale Puzzler Narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart
Coatsink, the studio known for VR games Augmented Empire (2018) and the Esper series, unveiled a new puzzle game at GDC 2019 this week that's slated to be a day-one launch title for Oculus Quest. We got a chance to go hands-on...
Epic Games to Award $100 Million to Devs with New ‘MegaGrants’
Epic Games today announced at GDC that the company is set to turbo-charge their long-running developer grant initiative with 'MegaGrants' and the largest pool of funds yet, $100,000,000.
Epic have been running developer-focused funding initiatives for many years now, with...
‘Space Junkies’ Open Beta to Land on All Major VR Headsets Tomorrow with Cross-play
Ubisoft is getting ready to launch its next big foray into VR with the multiplayer shooter Space Junkies, which is set to launch on March 26th. But first, users on PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows VR will have a free...
Oculus Rift S vs. Oculus Quest – Specs & Features
Oculus has announced Rift S, the headset's fabled hardware refresh that brings with it a modest spec bump and a few other changes to the original Rift that the company hopes will appeal to new entrants in PC VR...
Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools
Scope AR, the enterprise-focused AR studio, today announced it has successfully closed a $9.7 million Series A funding round to further develop it cross-platform AR work training and on-site instruction tools.
The company's Series A was led by Romulus Capital,...
Full Reveal of ‘Star Wars Vader Immortal’ Quest Launch Title Coming Next Month
ILMxLab is to finally demo its upcoming Star Wars Virtual Reality series, Vader Immortal at the annual Star Wars Celebration event in April.
We reported on ILMxLAB's latest immersive VR experience way back in October last year, after the studio...
Breakout VR Hit ‘Beat Saber’ Confirmed as Oculus Quest Launch Title
Beat Games is getting ready to take their massively successful block-slashing rhythm game to new heights, as Oculus today announced that Beat Saber (2018) is coming to Oculus Quest at launch.
According to an Oculus blog post, the Quest version of the game will...
OpenXR Standard Ratified, Microsoft, Oculus, & Others to Release First Implementations
OpenXR is a royalty-free standard for cross-platform VR and AR development. It's backed by many of the biggest names in the VR and AR industries and has been in development by the consortium for two years now, organized by...
‘Beat Saber’ Sells Over One Million Copies
Beat Games, the Czech Republic-based indie developers behind Beat Saber (2018), announced they've sold over one million copies of their popular block-slashing rhythm game—a figure calculated across all supported VR platforms.
Beat Games CEO Jaroslav Beck announced the news in...
Upcoming ‘Sniper Elite’ VR Game Likely Headed to PSVR With Aim Support
Yesterday Rebellion Developments, the studio behind the Sniper Elite series, announced that a Sniper Elite VR game is in development in partnership with studio Just Add Water. Details have been kept to a minimum, with a full announcement planned for...
Within ‘Beat Saber’s’ First Music Pack Lurks a Beast Worth Taming
Bust out the sweat bands and tighten your wrist straps. A big update to Beat Saber yesterday added a slew of new content to the PC version. Alongside that update, the game's first paid DLC, Monstercat Music Pack Vol....
‘Beat Saber’ Gets First Paid Music Pack, Update Brings Previous PSVR Exclusives to PC
Beat Games today released Beat Saber's long-awaited first DLC music pack, an effort created in partnership with electronic dance music record label Monstercat. A new update on PC also brings it up to speed with the PSVR version, now featuring...



















