PC VR News & Reviews
The latest PC VR news. In this section you'll find SteamVR reviews, games, and news on Valve's latest moves in XR and spatial computing.
Story-driven VR shooter ‘Of Lies & Rain’ Early Access Release Date Confirmed for September
Of Lies & Rain is an upcoming story-based VR shooter headed to Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR. A new trailer confirms an early access release date of September 10th.
Following the recent release of its demo earlier this year,...
‘Duck Season’ Releasing on Steam and Oculus Store September 14th, New Gameplay Trailer Here
Duck Season is a first-person adventure game created by Stress Level Zero, developers of multiplayer shooter Hover Junkers (2016). While it's hard to pin down exactly what sort of game it is with its unique, nostalgia-inducing narrative style and horror elements, we'll be...
‘ROM: Extraction’ Review
Shooting a gun in VR is a pretty powerful experience, and the feeling of being able to look down the sights and blast away the baddies with a well-aimed shot is pretty cathartic to say the least. With games like...
Hands-on: ‘Project Arena’ Aims for Competitive VR Motion Combat
Project Arena is a competitive ‘full-body’ VR experience from CCP. Using the Oculus Touch controllers, this eSports experiment is far removed from the space simulation themes normally associated with the company, although it retains much of the style and slick presentation.
I was able...
Stress Level Zero’s ‘Boneworks’ to Launch in December, New Gameplay Video Here
Boneworks, Stress Level Zero's upcoming physics-based shooter, now has an official release date, which was revealed in a brand new gameplay video that shows off more of its creepy, but oddly familiar atmosphere.
The game is slated to launch on...
Ubisoft Launching ‘Eagle Flight’ in 2016 on Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive
Ubisoft today announced on stage at Unity's GDC 2016 keynote that their Eagle Flight prototype VR experience is headed for a full launch.
Ubisoft's Vicki Ferguson took to the Unity keynote stage this morning to give a brief demo of Eagle...
Guinness Record Set With 25 Continuous Hours in Virtual Reality
Guinness World Records, an organisation journalling the extraordinary (and often insane) stunts people will pull for notoriety, and now the book has its first virtual reality entry. Watch as Derek Westerman swaps reality for Tilt Brush inside the HTC...
VR Manga Game ‘TOKYO CHRONOS’ Kickstarter Successfully Funded
Japanese VR studio MyDearest and Los Angeles-based Sekai Project launched a Kickstarter campaign last month to fund the development of a new VR manga game. Dubbed TOKYO CHRONOS, the VR visual novel game is now one step closer to coming to users...
Closeup: Next-generation SteamVR Tracking Base Station is “Better in every way”
As evidenced by the decision to begin selling SteamVR Tracking base stations directly later this year, Valve aims to continue driving development of the technology. A look at the latest engineering sample of the next-generation base station model shows...
‘Iron Man’ Director Jon Favreau’s First VR Project ‘Gnomes & Goblins’ Looks Delightful
Veteran Director of Iron Man, Chef and more recently The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau has now teamed up with veteran VR production house WEVR on a brand new project entitled 'Gnomes & Goblins', a realtime VR experience set in a magical...
Play VR Sport ‘SPARC’ for Free on Rift This Weekend
Sparc (2017), the VR sport from EVE Online developers CCP Games, is hosting a free weekend for Rift players on Oculus Home. Temporary free access has already begun, and will conclude on February 4th at 11:59 PM PT (local time here).
Initially...
Review: ‘Downward Spiral: Horus Station’ is a Visual Feast, But Skimps on Story & Gunplay
Downward Spiral: Horus Station is a sci-fi adventure that puts you aboard a vast, abandoned space station that was cleared out of all life after military-grade robots turned on the station's human inhabitants. There's a lot to admire about the full...
Former Oculus Engineering VP Teases ‘Reverse Lighthouse’ Tracking System That Can Fit in a Smartphone
Jack McCauley worked as VP of Engineering at Oculus, joining the company in the early days back in 2012. No longer with the company but continuing on with various engineering projects, McCauley is teasing some Lighthouse-like tracking technology that he...
‘COMPOUND’ Demo Hits SteamVR, Puts You in a VR World of Lovingly Detailed Retro Graphics
COMPOUND is a VR hobby project from developer 'NotDead' which aims to immerse you in a world of lovingly crafted pixel art, retro-styled first person shooter.
Update (4/6/17, 11:48PM PT): Compound has received a major update with v0.03b and has launched on SteamVR...
‘Beat Saber’ Gets Imagine Dragons DLC Music Pack, New 360 Game Mode Coming Soon
Beat Games today announced that Beat Saber (2018) just dropped a ten-song DLC music pack featuring the music of Grammy Award-winning rock band Imagine Dragons. The studio is also showing off a new '360' level mode at E3 this week,...



















