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Book Reveals the Fate of Two Other Valve VR Games Developed Alongside ‘Alyx’

It was big news back in 2017 when Valve announced that it was working on "three full games, not experiments." It wouldn't be until late 2019 that one of the three was revealed as Half-Life: Alyx. But what of...

‘New Retro Arcade: Neon’ Review

New Retro Arcade: Neon is striving to be one of the most accurate recreations yet of the so called 'Golden Age of Arcade Gaming' with its heavy emphasis on '80s and early '90s nostalgia. Featuring a multitude of configurable emulator-based coin-op cabinets...

Play MMORPG ‘OrbusVR’ for Free on Rift This Weekend for a Chance to Win Prizes

OrbusVR, an MMORPG created from the ground-up for VR headsets, is getting a free weekend on Rift starting April 19th to April 22nd. As a part of Oculus' two-year anniversary of Rift, this is the fourth weekend to feature a one...

Refurbished Quest 3 on Amazon is the Headset’s Best Deal Yet

In an effort to reposition the price ladder for its flagship headset, Meta is aiming to get the 128GB model of Quest 3 out the door for good. A new refurbished Quest 3 deal on Amazon is the best...

Google Reportedly to Invest $100M in Smart Glasses Partner Gentle Monster

Ahead of Google's planned rollout of Android XR-equipped smart glasses, the company is reportedly making a $100 million investment in hardware partner Gentle Monster, the South Korean fashion eyewear brand. According to a Korean Economic Daily report, Google is slated to sign...
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‘Windlands’ Studio Reveals New Co-op Adventure Platformer ‘Titan Isles’ for Quest and PC VR

Windlands studio Psytec Games today unveiled its first new project in seven years, a co-op adventurer platformer called Titan Isles. The game looks to be somewhat of a spiritual successor to Windlands 2 (2018), the studio's most recent game, letting co-op...
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PlayStation VR Teardown Reveals Display Curiosity and Lenses

A hardware launch wouldn’t be complete without an iFixit teardown, and the most recent VR device on their operating table is Sony’s PlayStation VR. With decades of experience in hardware design and manufacturing, and having created many non-VR head-mounted displays...

Futuretown is Bringing Motion Platform Arcade Thrills to VR

Taipei based virtual reality company Futuretown is planning to build a out of home destination where you can experience custom built VR game experiences built for and enhanced by 3 different motion platforms. The rampant rise of video games in...

nDreams Raises £2.7M to Further Develop VR Games, Signs Deal to Bring Exclusive Content to VR...

nDreams, creators of The Assembly and publishers of the upcoming brawler Bloody Zombies, have completed an additional £2 million investment with Mercia Technologies, and £700,000 from private investors to create more VR games. In addition, nDreams has signed a deal to bring exclusive new...

The VirtualLink Single-cable Headset Connection Standard Has Been Abandoned

VirtualLink was an open standard that defined a USB-C based connection protocol that was “developed to meet the connectivity requirements of current and next-generation VR headsets,” and backed by major VR industry players. The goal was to make a...

‘ARKTIKA.1’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from 4A Games

ARKTIKA.1, now in development for more than two years, is shaping up to be a gritty VR shooter with a AAA look and feel. Ahead of the game's launch on the Oculus Rift we spoke with the game's executive...

VorpX Update Released – DK2 Support, Early Positional Tracking, DX11 G3D Support and More (video)

The new version of VorpX, the 3D driver that lets you play non-VR games on your Oculus Rift, has just been released and it adds early support for the DK2, Geometry 3D support for DirectX 11 games and positional...

GTA Boss on VR: “No Market” for VR that “Requires You to Dedicate a Room”

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has poured scepticism on the hype surrounding VR post launch by voicing concerns about the cost and space requirement of current systems, mostly (by the sounds of it) the HTC Vive. Strauss Zelnick isn't exactly what...

HP, Alienware, and MSI Among ‘Vive Ready PC’ Partners, Starting at $1,299

Mirroring the 'Oculus Ready PC' program, HTC is now working with PC hardware partners to offer 'Vive Optimized PCs'. The initial set of systems come from HP, Alienware, and MSI. 'Vive Optimized PCs' are "fully Vive-compatible right out of the...

‘Job Simulator’ & ‘Vacation Simulator’ Are Both Coming to Oculus Quest

Oculus released a video yesterday highlighting some of the upcoming games for Quest, the 6DOF standalone VR headset set to launch in Spring 2019. To our surprise, not only did we see that Vacation Simulator was prominently featured, but we also...
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