Sansar, Linden Lab's VR-capable Second Life follow-up, is being spun out, the company's CEO has confirmed. Update (March 25th, 2020): Sansar has been acquired by Wookey Projects, a still fairly stealth San Francisco-based technology company. The exchange in IP is effective immediately. Linden...

Half-Life: Alyx launched on Monday to critical acclaim. The worst part about the game? After waiting so long, it's over all too soon. But, Valve has left a very significant tease that the game won't be the last Half-Life VR...

Half-Life: Alyx beat out major titles like Fortnite and League of Legends in concurrent Twitch viewers on the game's launch day. Half-Life: Alyx became one of gaming's most watched titles on Twitch yesterday. With 300K peak concurrent viewers (according to SteamDB data) the...

Half-Life: Alyx (2020) launched yesterday on Steam, which not only symbolizes Valve's first dip back into the Half-Life franchise from over a decade, but also marks it as their first full-fledged VR title. You might not be too surprised to...

After years of quiet development, Half-Life: Alyx is finally here. With hype on all sides—as Valve's first full-fledged VR game and the first Half-Life game in more than a decade—does it deliver? Read on to find out in our full Half-Life: Alyx review. Half-Life:...

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...