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.
‘Downward Spiral: Prologue’ Review
Downward Spiral: Prologue (2017) is a sci-fi adventure game that takes you into a lovingly recreated '70s retro future of CRT monitors and space stations abound. Featuring a single-player and coop mission, and multiplayer deathmatch mode Downward Spiral: Prologue feels like...
First Ever Steam Awards Finalists Include Two VR-enabled Games
Tabletop Simulator (2015) and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015) are the two virtual reality-enabled games nominated for the very first Steam Awards. The winners will be announced on New Year’s Eve after a period of public voting.
Introduced during the...
Valve’s Lighthouse Base Station in Action, Inner Workings Explained
Some of the inner workings of Valve's Lighthouse base station, an infrared laser-emitting device used for 'room scale' positional tracking, were revealed today by Valve developer Joe Ludwig.
Ludwig's SVVR Conference talk entitled "OpenVR and You" addressed a number of issues dealing...
Valve Head Affirms Work on First-party VR Games and Interest in Future Technology
During a Q&A on Reddit, Valve head Gabe Newell affirmed that the company is continuing development its own first-party VR content, as well as exploring interests in new technologies which could play a part in Valve's future.
After dodging a flurry...
New Free Unreal Engine 4 Bootcamp E-Book Offers Superb Intro for Wannabe VR Devs
Unreal Engine 4 launched to developers around the world back in March and immediately impressed. Epic's successor to its near ubiquitous UE3, which dominated much of the last generation of game development, was designed from the ground up to...
‘Wake Up’ is a Surreal, Immersive Vive Puzzler with Killer Sound Design
Wake Up from Austrian developers Black Cell is a new, surreal subversion of the traditional puzzle and exploration genres sporting some beautiful art direction and some arresting sound design.
Many's the time I've waffled on about the importance of sound in...
NVIDIA ‘VR Funhouse’ Coming to Steam for Free This Month
VR Funhouse, Nvidia's physics sandbox revealed alongside the GeForce GTX 1080 in May, is coming to Steam this month for free. Nvidia is keeping mum on exact release dates for now.
The suite of HTC Vive-compatible mini-games primarily acts as a showcase for the company’s GPU-based physics...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – September #1
Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences.
RGBverse is a constant roller platform arcade with beautiful 3d graphics, non-stop...
New Job Simulator Trailer Reveals Final Job: The Automotive Mechanic
Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator is coming to the Oculus Rift with Oculus Touch support this year and launches alongside (and indeed in the box) with the HTC Vive. This latest trailer for the game reveals the fourth and final...
‘SUPERHYPERCUBE’ Teases Vive Support, But Developer Protest Could Keep it From Rift
SUPERHYPERCUBE, a spatial reasoning puzzle game for PSVR looks to be soon headed to the Vive through SteamVR. And while SteamVR normally supports the Rift, a developer protest could exclude the headset.
SuperHyperCube is most succinctly described as a 'Tetris (1984)...
Elders React to the HTC Vive with Joy, Fear, and Disbelief at How Far Technology Has...
...granted, that's not much different than how the rest of the world reacts to it in their first try of VR, but this video (above) in the 'Elders React' series is too good to pass up.
Fine Brothers Entertainment took...
‘EVE: Valkyrie’ to Receive Carrier Assault Mode with Star Wars-style Trench-run
A new objective-based game mode was today announced for EVE: Valkyrie at Fanfest 2016, CCP's annual gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland. Called 'Carrier Assault', it promises to offers what lead designer Andrew Willans calls an "influence from a certain '70s sci-fi classic moment."...
‘Elite Dangerous’ Support Coming to Oculus Rift at Launch
Frontier Developments, makers of Elite Dangerous, today announced that the open-Universe space sim will be supporting Oculus Rift on day one of its March 28th launch. The good news: if you already own the game, you'll be getting Oculus support for...
‘Racket: Nx’ Early Access Review
Developer: One Hamsa, Waves Audio
Publisher: Keshet International Gaming
Available On: SteamVR (HTC Vive)
Reviewed on: HTC Vive
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Note: This game is in Early Access which means the developers have deemed it incomplete and likely to see changes over time. This review is an...
DiRT Rally VR – 4 Minutes of Oculus Rift Gameplay
DiRT Rally, one of the finest driving games out there, has finally arrived with official Oculus Rift CV1 support and it's elevated our opinions of the Codemasters developed game even higher. Here's 4 minutes of direct feed gameplay captured...



















