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.
‘Alvo’ Wants to Be ‘CS:GO’ for VR, Launching with Cross-play for PSVR, Rift & Vive in...
Indie studio Mardonpol, makers of Quiz Night Tonight! (2017), is dialing in on CS:GO territory with its recently released trailer which shows all of the trappings of the popular PC shooter, replete with Italy-inspired map, AWPs, and bomb planting galore. The...
‘Budget Cuts’ Sees Two Week Delay, Now Launching May 31st
Two years in the making, Budget Cuts has remained almost completely off the radar after briefly surfacing back in 2016, but this week at GDC 2018 the game has reemerged with fresh details, including a May 31st release date, which,...
‘Roboquest’ VR Port Shows New Look at Gameplay and Confirms Co-op Support
Flat2VR Studios today showed off some fresh gameplay footage of Roboquest VR, its upcoming port of the titular fast-paced roguelite shooter.
Like the original flatscreen Roboquest (2023) from RyseUp Studios, Flat2VR also confirmed Roboquest VR will similarly feature two-player co-op in addition...
Book Reveals the Fate of Two Other Valve VR Games Developed Alongside ‘Alyx’
It was big news back in 2017 when Valve announced that it was working on "three full games, not experiments." It wouldn't be until late 2019 that one of the three was revealed as Half-Life: Alyx. But what of...
HTC’s VR Lineup Now Includes 11 Headset Packages and Its Modular Strategy is a Mess
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...
Penn & Teller’s ‘Desert Bus VR’ is a Bad Simulator with a Good Heart
Penn & Teller's Desert Bus VR is finally here, letting you take the wheel of a crappy old commercial bus for a mind-numbing 8-hour trip from Tuscon to Las Vegas. It's not great (at all), but it's built for a truly noble cause.
You...
Ubisoft’s Psychological Thriller ‘Transference’ to Launch Next Week on Vive, Rift & PSVR
Elijah Wood's studio SpectreVision and Ubisoft Montreal announced Transference at last year's E3, a VR thriller-adventure that takes into something of a virtual reality inside a virtual reality. It's only a few more days until the game is officially released, with the...
Imogen Heap VR Concert Experience to Land on ‘TheWaveVR’ August 31st
Imogen Heap, the Grammy-award winning musician, is following in the footsteps of TOKiMONSTA, Ash Koosha, and The Glitch Mob with a social VR concert experience, hosted on TheWaveVR platform soon.
Starting tomorrow, August 31st, the Imogen Heap experience will kick off...
‘Beat Saber’ is Now the 7th Best Rated Steam Game of All Time
Beat Saber has climbed to the #7 spot among best rated games on Steam—VR or otherwise—and continues to hold the #1 spot among VR titles.
For a few days following its Early Access launch back in May, Beat Saber basked in the...
Gladiator Sim ‘GORN’ Launches on PSVR Today, Including Less Violent ‘Piñata Mode’
GORN (2019), the comically violent VR combat game, has finally made its way to PSVR. Starting today you'll be able to clobber a near-endless supply of teetering barbarians—and living room TVs if you don't watch where you swing those...
New ‘Kayak VR’ DLC Lets You Go Cave-kayaking with a Friend in a Beautiful Yet Terrifying...
Better Than Life has released a new paid DLC environment for its multiplayer kayaking game Kayak VR: Mirage (2022), this time taking inspiration from Yucatán, Mexico for some lush cenotes and mysterious caves.
The game's new Yucatán DLC is now...
Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Pass 2 Million Milestone
2020 was a big year for VR on Steam with the release of new headsets, Valve's flagship VR title Half-Life: Alyx, and the Coronavirus pandemic which drove large increases in gaming. These factors combined pushed monthly-connected VR headsets on Steam...
Viveport to Officially Support Windows VR Headsets Next Month
HTC announced back at GDC 2019 that Viveport, the company's digital distribution platform for VR games, was going to support Windows VR headsets later this year. Now, the company has set the official date: June 5th, 2019.
Update (May 29th, 2019):...
Valve Index Back Orders Now Just ‘2 to 4 weeks’, The Lowest in Months
The Valve Index supply seems to be normalizing somewhat after the big COVID-19 world manufacturing slowdown, as all supported countries are now seeing shipping dates ranging from just two to four weeks on some packages.
Although the full Valve Index...
‘Evasion’ Review – Strafe, Shoot, Heal, Rinse & Repeat
Evasion is a first-person sci-fi shooter from indie AR/VR studio Archiact. With its co-op campaign missions, the game is decidedly aiming to capture a Halo-esque shooting experience along with massive numbers of enemies, something the studio has been couching as a...


















