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.
HTC Vive Nominated for ‘Best Hardware’ in Gamescom 2015 Awards
Virtual reality hardware has set something of a trend at trade show awards over the last few years. Oculus in particular have traditionally cleaned up in the 'best hardware' category at shows like CES for example. Now it seems...
Optimizing Gameplay and Fun with Fantastic Contraption
Fantastic Contraption is an amazingly fun and super compelling world building tool where you build contraptions that get from point A to B, and it was recently announced as one of the games that's going to be bundled with...
‘DeathTolls’ VR Experience Creates Chilling Visualizations of Human Loss from Disasters Worldwide
DeathTolls VR experience is a chilling visualization of the enormity of human loss created through various violent conflicts and disasters throughout the world, and aims to help quantify this loss by presenting the user with a field of the deceased.
Death caused by...
Psytec Games and Windlands Team Join Forces
Two up-and-coming VR development teams behind two extremely promising made-for-VR games have relvealed they are to team up. Psytec Games, makers of Crystal Rift, has announced that the duo behind Windlands, a first person VR grappling hook action title, are to...
‘Call of the Starseed’ Gameplay on the HTC Vive at PAX Prime 2015
Cloudhead Interactive were at PAX Prime in Seattle this weekend, showing off their latest (and newly titled) first installment in their 'The Gallery' saga, Call of the Starseed, featuring their recently announced 'Blink' VR locomotion system. The game was...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – January #3
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.
Pre-release experience inspired by the film Blade Runner, in particular the balcony...
News Bits: ZVR Apocalypse Playable DK2 Demo Released – Dismember Zombies in Bullet-Time
Developer Shaun Edwards (aka Sh0v), not content with producing Lunar Flight, one of the best early VR enabled games for the Oculus Rift, is already releasing a playable demo of his second VR-enabled title. Lucid VR Games has been...
News Bits: ‘VRClay’ Allows Quick and Easy Creation of Digital Sculptures Using Razer Hydra
VRClay is a recently revealed piece of digital sculpting software which utilizes the Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra motion controller to create 3D models in no time at all.
If games like Minecraft (2011) have shown us anything, it's that...
HTC Vive to Make UK Public Debut at EGX 2015, Sept 24-27
Valve's first SteamVR headset the HTC Vive is coming to UK's biggest gaming event EGX 2015 at Birmingham's NEC September 24-27. This'll be the first time the hardware has been shown publicly in the UK and will available to try throughout EGX's...
UK Retailer Currys Lets You Go Hands-on With the HTC Vive Right Now
We're just a few weeks out from the consumer arrival of two major VR systems, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The biggest problem with VR however, is that in order to understand it's potential, you need to try...
Oculus Story Studio Talks Tooling, Using “out-of-the-box tools as much as possible”
Oculus Story Studio, the company's in-house content creation studio that has produced a number of highly polished experiences, recently released a surprising 'tell all' blog post detailing just what sort of tools the team of VR content creators use.
Story Studio has the funds, and...
“World’s First Virtual Reality Painting Exhibiton” Takes Place 12-13th June, Presented by Tilt Brush
Tilt Brush, the made-for-VR painting program that lets you create anything and everything with the stroke of a virtual brush, have announced "the world's first VR painting exhibition" to take place June 12-13th, 2015 in San Francisco.
Skillman & Hackett,...
ADR1FT is Coming March 28th for Oculus Rift
Thee One Zero's made-for-VR 'astronaut in peril' game ADR1FT is one of the most anticipated releases for VR headsets, and now it looks to be launching, on March 28th - in close proximity to the consumer Oculus Rift ship...
‘Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes’ Comes to Steam and Oculus Rift (or not) in October
Steel Crate Games, an Ottawa based indie studio, has today announced that their bomb-defusing party game—Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes—is coming to Steam on October 8th with Oculus Rift support.
The co-op bomb-defusing game makes for an ingenious way of involving a whole...
More VR Juggling With the HTC Vive, This Time Wirelessly
Back in May, Owlchemy Labs, developer of the forthcoming Job Simulator, shared with us a video that highlighted the impressive precision of the SteamVR controllers along with the HTC Vive. Now with the wireless SteamVR controllers in hand, Owlchemy's...

















