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.
New SteamVR Home Environments Are Your First Look Inside ‘Half-Life: Alyx’
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...
‘L.A. Noire VR’ for PC Gets Minigames Previously Exclusive to PSVR
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,...
SteamVR Gets a New Dashboard, Finally Ditching Steam Big Picture
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...
Valve to Release ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ SteamVR Environments You Can Explore with Friends
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...
Watch 19 Minutes of New ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Gameplay Footage & Trailers
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...
Rhythm Game ‘Synth Riders’ Gets Cross-platform Multiplayer in New Update
Synth Riders (2018), the VR rhythm game from Kluge Interactive, initially launched on PC VR and Oculus Quest as a single-player game. Now, the studio has released a cross-platform multiplayer mode that lets you create private and public lobbies for...
PSVR MOBA ‘Megalith’ to Launch on PC VR Headsets Soon
Disruptive Games announced that Megalith (2019), its first-person MOBA for PSVR, is headed to PC VR headsets soon.
First launched on PSVR in January 2019, Megalith brings classic hero shooter-style combat to virtual reality in a 2v2 arena battle. With five...
‘The Room: A Dark Matter’ Coming to All Major VR Headsets in Late March, Trailer Here
Fireproof Games, the studio behind popular puzzle title The Room (2014), today announced its first VR entry into the franchise—The Room: A Dark Matter—is slated to arrive next month on PC VR headsets, Oculus Quest, and PSVR.
Fireproof says in a tweet...
‘Bizarre Barber’ is a Surreal VR Game About Cutting Hair in a Post-apocalyptic Subway
Brooklyn-based studio Synesthetic Echo is nearly ready to release a charmingly weird new title that tasks you with snipping away at mutant mops tops in an otherworldly subway platform.
Called Bizarre Barber, the hair-styling game is set to release on Steam and...
Preview: ‘The Room: A Dark Matter’ Sets a New Bar for VR Puzzle Games
The Room: A Dark Matter is an upcoming VR puzzler from Fireproof Games, the same minds behind The Room (2014), its beloved predecessor for PC and mobile, and VR shooter-adventure Omega Agent (2016). With the fresh VR entry in franchise, Fireproof has...
‘Until You Fall’ Dev Focuses on Supporting More Headsets, Quest & PSVR Likely Considered
Until You Fall launched in Early Access on Steam and Oculus back in August 2019; the game impressed us with its excellent VR melee combat system. Despite consistently high reviews, the game hasn't attracted a critical mass of players,...
Index Will Return to Stock Ahead of ‘Half-Life: Alyx’, but “far fewer units” Due to Coronavirus
Valve today confirmed that the Coronavirus outbreak has impacted production of the Index VR headset and other hardware. While the company tells us it still expects that new stock will be available ahead of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx on...
‘No Man’s Sky’ February Update Lets You Grow & Fly Living Ships
No Man's Sky (2016) has been on a roll lately with its continuous updates ever since its big 'Beyond' refresh in Summer 2019, which brought along with it VR support for PS4 and PC versions of the game. Now,...
HTC Reveals Vive Proton, a Compact Standalone VR Headset Prototype
As if announcing three new Cosmos headsets wasn't enough, HTC today also revealed Vive Proton. The company is calling this a "prototype" headset with two different flavors: a standalone VR headset and a 'VR viewer' which would be powered...
HTC Unveils Three New Vive Cosmos Headsets: Elite, Play, and XR
Buckle up, this one's a doozy. HTC today introduced three new variants of its Vive Cosmos VR headset. Joining the original Cosmos is Cosmos Elite, Cosmos Play, and Cosmos XR. The four variants of the headset aim to cover...



















