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‘Crooked Waters’ to Bring Co-op Pirate Ship Battles to VR, Launching in Early Access This Week

The Netherlands-based Craft Game Studio is bringing Crooked Waters, a multiplayer pirate ship game for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, to Steam Early access this week. Pitting would-be pirates in a four vs. four battle on the high seas, the...

‘Luna’ is a Beautiful Introduction to VR for Gaming Novices

A little while back, Oculus issued a $15 credit to many Rift users after an issue which prevented the headsets from working for a day or two. Seeking out something worthy to drop this credit on, I scrolled through...

‘Super Puzzle Galaxy’ Exits Early Access, 24 Additional Levels Released in ‘Warp Ball’ DLC

Super Puzzle Galaxy (2018), a physics-based puzzle game from Vive Studios and 2Bears Studio, has just existed its seven-month stint in Early Access. To boot, the studios have also launched the game's second DLC pack today, dubbed 'Warp Ball', which adds...

The 5 Best Games for HTC Vive

It was a hard decision, but you've decided to go with the HTC Vive as your first 'serious' VR headset, a room-scale device that released early 2016 as a result of a decisive collaboration with Valve. Here we take a...

PSVR Horror Game ‘Stifled’ Coming to Vive, Rift & PC Next Week

Stifled (2017) originally launched last year as a PSVR exclusive, but now Singaporean studio Gattai Games is bringing the echolocation-based horror game to Rift, Vive, and PC next week. As the protagonist David Ridley, you're suddenly stricken blind, making the world...

Update: This Homebrewed Mini 3D-Tracked Sensor Module Only Cost $3 in Parts

Dr. Masahiko Inami, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, recently tweeted a picture of an incredibly small, homebrewed 3D-tracked sensor module that has us reeling at the implications for ever-smaller tracked...

Valve Reveals 2018’s Top Selling VR Games on Steam (so far)

Just in time for the end of Steam's summer sale, Valve has released a list of the top selling VR games of 2018 so far. Broken down into a series of 'Best of 2018' charts, we got our annual eye-full...

Valve: Monthly Active VR Users on Steam Are Up 160% Year-over-year

Speaking at an industry event last week, Valve offered an update on Steam, the company's massive digital marketplace for PC games, including the continued growth the company has seen in the VR segment over the last year. Speaking at the...
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‘Waba’ is a Virtual Pet That Aims to Wobble Your Heartstrings, Launching Next Week in Early...

The heyday of virtual pets like Tamagotchi and Digimon may be long gone, reaching the height of their popularity in the late '90s, but with new mediums come new possibilities, and new ways to interact with virtual pets too....

‘Waltz of the Wizard’ Studio Aldin Raises $1M to Fuse VR & AI in New Title

VR veterans Aldin, the indie studio behind Waltz of the Wizard and other early and innovative VR titles, has announced the closure of a $1 million Seed investment. The money will be used to support the studio's next project which...
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Chinese VR Zombie Action-shooter ‘The Walker’ Launches on PSVR Today

The Walker (2018) is a VR action-shooter from Haymaker that puts a six-shooter in one hand and magic talismans in the other—all to fend off zombies of increasingly horrific sizes in the streets of old Shanghai. The Walker is now...

This Developer Recreated ‘The Legend of Zelda’ Boss Battles in VR

For VR users, the following question inevitably arises in some shape or form: why isn't 'x-studio' making my favorite 'y' game in VR? While the answer usually ends up being a lack of sufficient profit motive on the part of...

Report: HTC Lays Off 1,500 Employees in Taiwan Manufacturing Division

HTC is reportedly laying off 1,500 employees in its Taiwan manufacturing division, something Bloomberg's Taipei bureau chief Samson Ellis reports to be around 22% of HTC employees. https://twitter.com/samsonellis/status/1013723541760425984 CNET has confirmed that the company is indeed going forward with layoffs in Taiwan, although...
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Photorealistic VR Tour ‘Nefertari: Journey to Eternity’ Takes You Deep into a 3,000 Year-old Egyptian Tomb

Using state-of-the-art photogrammetry technology with millimeter accuracy, Simon Che de Boer of Reality Virtual and Experius VR have digitally scanned Nerfertari's tomb, letting owners of Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets step inside the fabled burial site and learn about the over 3,000...

Windows VR Headsets Seeing Slow But Steady Adoption on Steam

The monthly Steam hardware survey is out again, and while June hasn't revealed any major upsets in the balances of usership between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the survey shows that Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets are making slow,...
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