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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...

Niantic Offers Tantalizing Peek at Upcoming AR Tech, Announces New Platform for Third-party Devs

Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter AR game, announced they'll be opening up access to their latest work in AR, dubbed the 'Niantic Real World Platform', to third-party developers soon. To boot, the company...
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VR Co-op Shooter ‘Firewall Zero Hour’ Finally Gets Release Date on PSVR, New Gameplay Trailer Here

First Contact Entertainment today announced on the PlayStation blog that Firewall Zero Hour, the upcoming multiplayer VR shooter for PSVR, finally has a release date, and that a special PS Aim bundle will be available at launch. Heading to PSVR on 29th...

High Fidelity Raises $35M Series D Financing to Further Develop Social Platform & Blockchain Tech

High Fidelity, the social VR platform founded by Second Life founder Philip Rosedale, today announced it's successfully closed a $35 million Series D financing round. The company says it's using the funds to continue development on its global infrastructure for VR experiences, to accelerate hiring, and...

Penalty in ZeniMax v. Oculus Reduced to $250M, Motion to Halt Headset Sales Rejected

Bloomberg reported this week that the $500 million penalty levied at Oculus in last year's case brought by ZeniMax has been reduced to $250 million. A motion seeking to prevent sales of Oculus products using code attributed to ZeniMax...

‘Beat Saber’ to Get a Multiplayer Mode, Custom Avatars & Sabers Considered

Beat Saber developer Beat Games (formerly Hyperbolic Magnetism), has confirmed work on a competitive multiplayer mode for the popular rhythm game, which may in the future include custom avatars and sabers. Beat Saber currently offers global, friend, and local leaderboards...

Google’s ‘Tilt Brush’ Gets New Beginner Mode to Make VR Art Creation Easier

Google's Tilt Brush (2016) has shaped up to be a fully-featured VR creation tool since the app's initial launch in April 2016 on HTC Vive, adding things like support for Oculus Rift, integration with Google's other 3D VR creation tool Blocks (2017), and...

‘COMPOUND’ Update Adds New Map, Music – Indie Dev Goes Full Time

COMPOUND, an indie VR shooter that launched in Early Access back in May, has received a new update adding a new map type and new music, with new enemies planned for future updates. The game's sole developer has announced...

PSA: Logitech G POWERPLAY Mousepad Can Interfere with SteamVR Tracking, Update in the Works

A quick PSA for anyone who owns the Logitech G POWERPLAY mousepad and a Vive headset: Valve today confirmed that the mousepad can create interference for SteamVR Tracking (used by the Vive, Vive Pro, and Vive Tracker). Valve says...
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VR Sci-fi Shooter ‘Seeking Dawn’ to Land on Rift & Vive July 12th

Multiverse Inc., the studio behind VR sci-fi shooter Seeking Dawn, today announced the single/multiplayer game is soon heading out of closed beta and launching on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets on July 12th. The studio...

‘Skyrim VR’ PSVR Patch Brings Improvements to Visual Fidelity, Move Controls & More

Bethesda's debut VR title Skyrim VR (2017) recently received its third patch since the hotly awaited game launched on PSVR back in November. According to a studio forum post, the free patch not only fixes a few quality-of-life issues such as...

Valve Shipping Knuckles to “Hundreds” of Developers, Mass Production Could Be Next

Alongside the reveal of the revamped Knuckles controllers that Valve shared last week, third party developers have confirmed they've begun receiving the new EV2 version of the controller. Valve says that "soon, hundreds of developers will get their hands on...

Telekinetic Puzzle ‘Esper’ to Launch on PSVR & Oculus Go This Week, HTC Vive in July

Coatsink, the studio behind VR titles A Night Sky (2017) and Augmented Empire (2017), announced they're bringing their first mobile VR title, Esper (2015), to PlayStation VR, Oculus Go and Xiaomi Mi on June 29th. Esper is also slated to launch...
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HTC Donates Over 100 Vive Headsets to California & Nevada Libraries

HTC is donating over 110 HTC Vive systems to California and Nevada libraries through its new Vive Libraries Program, an effort to seed local communities with premium VR. In a blogpost announcing the program, HTC's Chris Chin, Executive Director of Education...

Valve Announces ‘Skeletal Input’ to Give SteamVR Apps More Lifelike Hands Moving Forward

Accompanying the news that Valve has made a critical redesign of its 'Knuckles' motion controller, the company also recently released a new input system in beta that not only aims to create lifelike hands, but make them accessible to...
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