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Preview: ‘Null of Hope’ Brings the Retro Adventure RPG to VR

Null of Hope, a retro first-person adventure RPG produced by Wade Arcade, gives a new twist to the genre and puts you in the game like never before. A 'list and click' variant of the popular 'point and click' games of the...
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New ‘Rigs: Mechanized Combat League’ Gameplay on Sony Morpheus Reminds Us Why We Love it

Here's a brand new gameplay video featuring the new Guerilla Cambridge crafted sports mech shooter 'Rigs: Mechanized Combat League' for the PS4 and Project Morpheus. Guerilla Cambridge, a UK based offshoot of the enormously successful Guerilla Games codehouse (developers of...

How Unity is Enabling this First Wave of Virtual Reality Experiences

Pete Moss is Unity's "VR Dude" in that he's been a long-time believer and advocate in the cross section between VR and gaming and how the Unity game engine could play a significant part. He talks to me about...

VR Developers Are Increasingly Prioritizing VR Arcades for Content Distribution

The virtual reality industry is poised for a transformative five years. While consumer VR equipment is still cost prohibitive for many, location-based 'VR arcade' businesses offer a chance for consumers to experience high-end VR equipment without a big up-front...

Rothenberg Ventures ‘River’ VR Accelerator Ups Ante to $1.3 Million, Announces Seed Investments in 13 Startups

Last month, Rothenberg Ventures launched 'River', an accelerator through which they committed to investing $100,000 in 10 seed-stage virtual reality startups. Today the company has announced that its decided to bump the inaugural class count up to 13, totalling...
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Tekken 7 Announced for PlayStation VR (Yes, Really!) – New Trailer Unwrapped

Yes, you read that correctly. The beat-em-up franchise as old as many of our readers, Tekken, is on its way to Sony's immersive gaming platform PlayStation VR. This was announced at Paris Games Week today as part of Sony's...
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‘Fantastic Contraption’ Devs Announce VR Remake for HTC Vive, Coming to PAX Prime

Fantastic Contraption, the free 2008 building game that challenged players to use a variety of tools to get their contraptions from point A to point B, is receiving a 3D makeover for virtual reality on the HTC Vive. According to...
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New Elite Dangerous: Horizons Trailer ‘Lands’

Frontier Developments just announced a new expansion series called 'Horizons' bringing with it planetary exploration and a new loot system. Here's a new teaser trailer to whet your appetite ahead of the expansion's first instalment's release - set for Christmas...

Presence Capital’s $10 Million AR/VR Fund Counts HTC’s Phil Chen Among Founders

Presence Capital today announced they've raised a $10 million fund to invest in VR/AR companies through the new VC firm. Among other heads of the fund is HTC's Phil Chen, the purported "founder" of the HTC Vive project at HTC. Presence...

Untold Games Bringing Loading Human to Sony Morpheus, Demoing at E3

Loading Human, a ambitious made-for-VR adventure game, in development for the Oculus Rift have announced it's on its way to Sony's Project Morpheus too. London based Untold Games' Loading Human is a game with high ideals when it comes to VR....

Apple’s ARKit is Bringing Augmented Reality to “hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads”

Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is here, and today's keynote saw a number of VR-specific announcements including Apple's first VR-ready computers to go along with the launch of the company's newest macOS High Sierra. While the company is finally...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep.88): Introducing OpenGear, A Gear VR Alternative, By Developer Mark Schramm

As a developer, one of the most difficult challenges is getting your hands on the actual hardware you are developing for. Samsung's Gear VR is slowly trickling out to non-US countries, but it may be months before some folks...

‘Elite: Dangerous’ to Get HTC Vive Support this Year, Play it on SteamVR at EGX 2015

Elite: Dangerous is getting support for Valve's flagship VR headset the HTC Vive later this year. What's more, if you're in the UK and heading to this week's EGX 2015 show, you'll have a chance to try it out. Elite:...

XEODesign’s Nicole Lazzaro on Design Leadership in VR

XEODesign's Nicole Lazarro has been researching emotional reactions of gamers in VR to discover the unique properties of the medium. You can't just port a 2D game into VR and expect it to work, and so she's calling for...

Jaunt Raises Additional $27.8 Million in Series B Funding Round

Jaunt VR, a company dedicated to creating a platform for the production of cinematic virtual reality content, today announced that it has closed a series B funding round, raising $27.8 million, led by Highland Capital Partners with participation by...
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