Half-Life: Alyx launches on Monday at 10AM PT. Luckily, you can now start pre-loading the game on Steam so that you're ready to go as soon as it launches. Update (March 20th, 2020): Valve has announced that Half-Life: Alyx pre-loading has...

With the highly anticipated launch of Half-Life: Alyx just days away, it feels like an appropriate time to look at Valve's unique commitment to ensuring that SteamVR remains a hardware-agnostic platform for VR content, and how the company has...

A SteamVR beta update today improved tracking when used with Oculus Quest via Oculus Link. Oculus Link allows Quest to be used just like a PC VR headset. While this makes it easy to play Oculus PC games, it also...

Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, sat down with IGN for a chat about the company, the promise of VR, and Newell's most bleeding edge project as of late, brain-computer interfaces (BCI). "Personally, the area I'm spending a lot of time on has...

As VR's best-selling title, Beat Saber is showing no signs of slowing down. Today Facebook, which now owns the studio behind the game, announced that Beat Saber has sold more than 2 million copies and 10 million songs via DLC. Beat...

Isekai Entertainment, a Seattle-based indie studio, released the first trailer for its upcoming action game Sword Reverie, a JRPG-inspired title that feels like a heartfelt love letter to the popular anime/manga Sword Art Online (SAO). Drawing from Japanese games and anime such...

With the game just two weeks away, we continue to see questions crop up about which VR headsets are supported by Half-Life: Alyx. So here's the complete list of VR headsets compatible with the game, and we'll also explain what...

HTC is discontinuing its Vive Pro and Vive Focus headsets in favor of newer versions of the headsets. The change helps streamline the company's smattering of headsets. In a recent opinion piece I argued that HTC's VR headset lineup, which...

Valve is working on a 'Single Controller Mode' among its accessibility options for Half-Life: Alyx so that players who can only operate one controller can complete the game in its entirety. In an effort to ensure as many people as...

With the re-introduction of the company's Cosmos VR headsets with four different variants, HTC's Vive lineup has become a confusing mess with 11 different headset packages to choose from. Even when just considering the Cosmos lineup itself, the company's...

For those that pre-ordered the game, Valve has brought two Half-Life: Alyx environments to SteamVR Home, giving players their first chance to step inside the game. Even if you didn't pre-order the game, it's still easy to check out the...

Rockstar Games brought L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files (2017) to PSVR in a surprise launch last September, bringing along with it some minigames to keep you shooting, punching, and driving with moxie well after you'd interrogated your last suspect. Now,...

From very early on, the SteamVR dashboard had adapted Steam's 'Big Picture' mode which was designed for use on big screen TV's rather than in VR. As it wasn't made with VR in mind, much of its functionality is...

Half-Life: Alyx is now less than three weeks away from launch, and to further stoke the inevitable hype surrounding the game's impending release on March 23rd, Valve is releasing some new SteamVR Home environments to Valve Index owners. Valve says in...

The first Half-Life: Alyx gameplay footage was released today by IGN and Valve in the form of three gameplay trailers and a nine minute stretch of gameplay footage. This is the best look yet at how Valve's first full fledged...