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‘Doom VFR’ Devs Detail Gameplay, Setting, and Locomotion in New Video

In 2016, Bethesda announced it was working on a Doom VR project, and earlier this year at E3 the company revealed it as Doom VFR. Due to launch in Q4 2017, a Q&A video with the game's developers shines more...

HTC Vive Gets Major Price Cut, Now $600

Hot on the heels of the $400 Summer Rift sale, HTC is doing some of its own price slashing, bringing the complete Vive system down by $200 to a new permanently lowered price of $600. VR's momentum continues as the...
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‘Manifest 99’ Takes You on a Train Ride to the Afterlife, Launching on PSVR September 12th

Manifest 99, a new release coming to PSVR on September 12th, is being described as an "interactive narrative VR experience" that "straddles the line between dream and nightmare." Manifest 99 is the first PSVR title from developer Flight School Studio (though they...
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‘Rec Room’ Update Adds New Quest, ‘Curse of the Crimson Cauldron’

The impressive content of popular social VR game Rec Room has once again expanded, with this week’s update introducing a brand new Quest titled ‘Curse of the Crimson Cauldron’. Developer Against Gravity believes their third co-op VR mini-adventure is...
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‘Hover Junkers’ is Getting a Single Player Mode, Here’s the Teaser Trailer

Developer StressLevelZero is fulfilling their promise of adding a single player campaign to Hover Junkers—one of the Vive's earliest titles—arriving in the free 1.3 ‘Junkroad’ update. The team recently posted a short gameplay teaser, showing a distinctly less frantic...
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One of the First Games Ever Shown on Vive Launches This Fall on Vive, Rift, and...

Arizona Sunshine developer Vertigo Games announced today that Skyworld, a top-down strategy game built for VR is coming to the Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets. The game was shown way back in 2015 as one of the first demos...

Strategy Game ‘League of War: VR Arena’ Comes to PSVR This Fall

Independent developer MunkyFun is bringing League of War: VR Arena exclusively to Sony’s PSVR platform this Fall. Detailed in an entry on the official PlayStation Blog, the studio’s first VR game is described as being similar to ‘holographic chess’...
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‘EVE: Valkyrie Warzone’ Update Adding Non-VR Mode and PS4/PC Cross Platform Play

One of the earliest big exclusive releases for VR, EVE: Valkyrie from CCP Games, continues to evolve and with the latest free expansion dubbed 'Warzone' the developers have opened its particular brand of slick online space shooter to players...

Oculus Details ‘Buffered Haptics’ for Advanced Haptics on Touch Controllers

Oculus has added new documentation to their developer knowledge base detailing the 'buffered haptics' feature of the Oculus SDK, a method for programming more advanced haptic feedback from the company's Touch controllers. Oculus Touch uses linear actuators to provide feedback,...

‘Star Citizen’ Devs Affirm Eventual VR Support, Say New UI is Designed With VR in Mind

Star Citizen may be the world's most ambitious Early Access project (and quite possibly the next textbook example of Development Hell). For those still holding their breath, the company has recently affirmed that VR support is still planned as an...
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‘Cat Sorter VR’ Hopes to Capitalize on Untapped Demand for Virtual Cat Sorting

Independent game developer and publisher Pawmingo Games has revealed Cat Sorter VR, an absurd game about rebuilding ‘defective’ cats. It will be playable at CatCon 2017 (naturally) in Pasadena, CA this weekend, and launches on Steam and Viveport on...

Oculus to Talk “Breakthroughs in Spatial Audio Technologies” at Connect Conference

Oculus Connect 4, the company's fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what's coming to the company's VR Audio...
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‘Rez Infinite’ Gets Surprise Launch on PC Today With VR Support and 20% Discount

Happy day for Rez (2001) fans—with no prior announcement, the modern remake, Rez Infinite (2016), launches today on PC with optional support for both the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. In addition to a 20% launch discount which prices...

Google is Exploring Ways to Let You Animate Your ‘Blocks’ Creations

Google’s team at Daydream Labs have been prototyping ways of animating objects and characters in Blocks, the company’s recently released VR modelling tool. In a recent entry on the Google Blog, senior UX engineer Logan Olson describes how it...

Save 55% on ‘Batman: Arkham VR’ Through August 22nd

Batman: Arkham VR (2016) is both the first VR Batman game, and the first VR title from developer Rocksteady Studios'—you wouldn't know it though, given the game's excellent visuals and well crafted VR design. If you haven't had a chance...
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