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.
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...
‘GTFO’ Gameplay Reveals VR Fun with Physics and the HTC Vive
I'm a big fan of games which just allow you to enjoy the mechanics of a game space. Give me a virtual room, objects and some well implemented physics and I'll get lost in my own sandboxed world, as...
Vive Pre-orders to Open February 29th as HTC Pivots From Smartphones to VR
Speaking with The Telegraph, HTC CEO Cher Wang confirms that pre-orders for the company's Vive VR system will open February 29th. Wang also indicates that HTC is turning its focus primarily to virtual reality.
The Telegraph reports HTC CEO Cher Wang...
‘Everspace’ Blasts Through Kickstarter Goal, Raises Almost Half a Million Dollars
The extremely promising looking space combat shooter Everspace, focused on accessibility and adrenaline rather than space trading, has completed its Kickstarter campaign, raising a whopping 420,252 EUR ($477,139) of it's original 225,000 EUR target.
Everspace is a space shooter which...
New ‘Crystal Rift’ Release Now Available, Now Includes Monsters, HTC Vive Launch Support Confirmed
Crystal Rift, the grid-based dungeon crawler by developer Psytec Games, has just received an update via Steam Early Access which includes the introduction of a whole host of monster enemies for you to encounter. Also, news of the team's...
‘Paranormal Activity’ HTC Vive Demo Playing in AMC Theaters from Oct 22nd
Paramount Pictures will try to scare the pants off you whilst also extolling the virtues of virtual reality from today as they's rolling out a series of demonstrations of a new HTC Vive experience based on 'Paranormal Activity'. The...
News Bits: 1 Day Left to Save Up to 80% on VR Games in Steam Holiday...
There's still time to cash in that cheque grandma gave you this holiday season (for piano lessons) and turn it into your favorite VR supported games, because Steam's yearly Holiday Sale is coming to an end on January 2nd.
Among others,...
New Vive Pre Video Invites You to “Experience the freedom of VR without boundaries”
https://youtu.be/CB9ecPgZlq0
Building up the newly revealed 'Vive Pre' development kit, HTC has released a new video teasing the possibilities of virtual reality.
The video is similar in production to earlier videos released during the first reveal of the HTC Vive back in...
Valve’s Jeep Barnett on Designing ‘The Lab’ for HTC Vive
Jeep Barnett is a programmer at Valve Corporation who has been on the VR team for the last couple year. He was at GDC showing off The Lab, which is a series of mini-games demonstrating different design principles within...
‘Thunderbird’ Father-Son Dev Team Win ‘Best VR Experience’ at Vision Summit
For the past year, Tony Davidson and his 17-year old son Kai have been tucked away in the hills of Oregon collaborating on a VR experience that was inspired from one of Kai's dreams. Thunderbird is a puzzle adventure...
New ‘Modbox’ Video Has Portals that Will Mess with Your Mind
We got our hands on Alien Trap's HTC Vive multi-player sandbox physics title at Unity's Vision VR/AR Summit last week and loved its playful encouragement to create and destroy. Now, this latest video shows the developer's tests with mind-bending...
‘Playthings’ is a Wonderful World of Hamburger Drums and Hot Dog Xylophones
Before his death, acclaimed psychonaut and technologist Terrence McKenna once said that virtual reality "...is a technology that will allow us to show each other our dreams. We will be able to build structures in the imagination that we...



















