2023 Sections

2023 Sections

FOVE Raises $11 Million Series A Investment to ‘Accelerate Mass Production’ in Fall 2016

FOVE today announced a Series A investment of $11 million led by the Colopl VR Fund with participation by Hon Hai VC fund 2020, and Samsung Ventures. Fove, who is creating a VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking, raised $480,000 on Kickstarter last...

Valve’s Jeep Barnett on Designing ‘The Lab’ for HTC Vive

Jeep Barnett is a programmer at Valve Corporation who has been on the VR team for the last couple year. He was at GDC showing off The Lab, which is a series of mini-games demonstrating different design principles within...
video

Unity’s VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God

At a special event at GDC this morning, Unity's Principal Designer Timoni West showed off the latest prototype of Unity's new Virtual Reality editor that lets you build VR applications and games as if you were a god. The two biggest...

PlayStation VR Pre-orders Sell Out in Minutes at Amazon, 4 Other Stores Still Taking Orders

Those hoping to board the early train to VR town were likely dismayed today when Amazon's PlayStation VR Launch Bundle pre-order sold out within minutes of going live. Luckily it may not be too late. In the US, Best...

Ben Gabbard on the VR Design & Gameplay of ‘Chronos’

Gunfire Games' Chronos is an atmospheric RPG with over 10 hours of action and adventure, and it uses a satisfying combat game mechanic that's very similar to their Herobound: Spirit Journey on the Gear VR. Chronos had a lot...

PlayStation VR Launch Bundle Pre-orders Opening at Amazon Today (Update: Sold Out)

Sony's PlayStation VR headset is due to reach consumer homes in October and Amazon in the US are going live with PlayStation VR launch bundles today from 7AM PST for $499. Update (3/22, 7:22 PT): In less than 10 minutes...

‘Defense Grid 2’ Proves How Compelling Tower Defense in VR Can Be

Jeff Pobst admits that it's probably not a new Rift owner's first thought to go out and buy a tower defense game, but Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition proved to me how compelling a tower defense game can...

Optimizing Gameplay and Fun with Fantastic Contraption

Fantastic Contraption is an amazingly fun and super compelling world building tool where you build contraptions that get from point A to B, and it was recently announced as one of the games that's going to be bundled with...

UK Retailer Currys Lets You Go Hands-on With the HTC Vive Right Now

We're just a few weeks out from the consumer arrival of two major VR systems, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The biggest problem with VR however, is that in order to understand it's potential, you need to try...
video

Watch Epic Games’ Nick Donaldson Build a Scene in Unreal’s VR Editor

Epic senior designer Nick Donaldson schooled us on some of the intricacies of Unreal's new VR Editor, modifying a pre-built demo scene using the Oculus Rift and Touch controller in the Epic booth at GDC. The Unreal VR Editor announced just last month...

Preview: ‘John Wick: The Impossible Task’ Puts You in the Shoes of an Elite Assassin

John Wick - The Impossible Task is an upcoming shooter from Starbreeze Studios working in collaboration with WEVR, Grab Games and Lionsgate that throws you into the John Wick universe for dual pistol-wielding action. We went hands on with the demo shown at this year's GDC...
video

Oculus’ Jason Rubin on Rift and Touch Games “We’re Not Launching a Dev Kit”

The Oculus Rift will land in people's homes from March 28th and there'll soon be 1000s of people hunting for new content to play in virtual reality. Oculus is of course keenly aware of this, and Jason Rubin, Head...
video

Gunfire Games’ David Adams on Rebooting Old-School Adventures with Chronos

Chronos from Gunfire Games is one of the 30 titles you'll be able to play at Oculus Rift's launch on March 28th and it represents a revisiting of the traditional adventure game mechanics of yesteryear, brought up to date...

Sony: ‘PSVR Breakout Box is Not a Crutch for PS4’

Today at the 'PlayStation VR: Development and Innovations' session, Sony Senior Staff Engineer Chris Norden took to the stage to give a technical overview of the company's VR headset. During the talk he sought to clear up misreported information regarding...
video

‘Giant Cop’ on HTC Vive Available via Humble Bundle Until 18th March

The folks over at Humble Bundle just sent us word that the HTC Vive launch title Giant Cop is available now until March 18th and will be available as an early build that same day. Humble Bundle is a digital...
39,929FansLike
13,574FollowersFollow
66,541FollowersFollow
27,800SubscribersSubscribe

Latest Headlines

Features & Reviews