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.

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.

‘The Talos Principle VR’ Gets October Release Date, Croteam to Offer Discount to Owners of PC...

Croteam's The Talos Principle (2014) is making its way to headsets soon in a separate VR version, supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The studio now has a Steam page, including an October 17th launch date. And if you already own the PC version of the...
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Space Sim ‘Elite Dangerous’ Gets Major Update With New Content and VR Fixes

Elite Dangerous (2014), the interstellar space trading, fighting, and exploration sim, has received a major new update, 2.4, The Return, which brings frightening new enemies to the virtual galaxy, as well as a number of fixes to the game's...

SteamVR Home Gets Major Customisation Improvements, New Boxing Mini-game

The SteamVR Home Beta, the platform's social VR hub system, recently received a significant upgrade, adding several improved customisation options, including ‘Trophies’ and the ability to decorate your space with screenshots or artwork. A new ‘Boxing Ring’ home environment...

Valve: No Steam Dev Days in 2017 “and not very likely for 2018”

Valve's 'no press allowed' dev conference, Steam Dev Days, is seeing the ax this year, and it seems next year doesn't look any better. According to a tweet by Valve Marketing and Business Development team member Tom Giardino, Steam Dev Days...

Preview: ‘The Invisible Hours’ – A Voyeuristic Murder Mystery in VR

Interactive theater is all about breaking the fourth wall, removing the barrier between the viewer and the play at hand. Traditionally this is done by getting the audience involved, usually in the guise of a dinner murder mystery party which...

‘Project CARS 2’ VR Review – An Ambitious Sequel With Serious Potential

Thanks to its comprehensive VR support on PC, Project CARS 2 is another great showcase for VR sim racing, offering better performance than Project CARS (2015) in a much more compelling package. Addressing many of its predecessor’s shortcomings, the...

Massive ‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Update ‘Warzone’ Rolls Out Today, Including PC & PS4 Support

The biggest update ever to EVE: Valkyrie (2016) is launching today. Called 'Warzone', the expansion brings with it a number of big features including support for PC and PS4, new maps, and a whole reworking of ship classes and abilities...
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Bethesda Talks ‘Fallout 4 VR’, New Gameplay Footage Revealed

The Fallout 4 VR hype machine is slowly ramping up to full speed, as the company today released a talk with the game's Lead Producer Andrew Scharf about some of the finer points of retrofitting the entire game for VR headsets. "Feeling like you’re...

Viveport to Give Developers 100% of Revenue Earned Over The Holidays

At this year's Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC), HTC announced a number of changes to Viveport to celebrate the one year anniversary of the app store and its subscription service. Developers will receive a 100% revenue share between October...

2013-era Crowdfunded VR Puzzle-Adventure ‘XING: The Land Beyond’ Finally Launches Today

XING: The Land Beyond (2017), a puzzle-adventure from White Lotus Interactive, is set to ship today—a good 4 years after they initially launched their Kickstarter and successfully stretch-goaled their way to include Oculus Rift support. Of course, back then the team was targeting the...

HTC Partners to Stream VR Games to Vive in China, Cutting VR-Ready PCs Out of the...

Oculus and HTC have already reduced the prices of their respective headsets, with the Oculus Rift now selling for $500 and HTC Vive for $600. While graphically-capable PCs are cheaper than ever thanks to new GPUs and software optimizations,...

Preview: ‘The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone’

The sequel to Cloudhead Games' early room-scale VR hit, The Gallery: Episode 1 - Call of the Starseed (2016), is nearly here. We got our hands on a limited preview of the soon-to-release Heart of the Emberstone, and if the little we played...

‘Driver4VR’ Emulates Vive Trackers With Kinect for Cheap VR Body Tracking

A new SteamVR mod from the developer behind WalkinVR now allows body tracking by emulating Vive Trackers via Kinect’s motion sensing data, enabling an inexpensive solution for full body motion tracking in VR. The driver, available at the official...

Crytek Adds HTC Vive & Oculus Touch Support to ‘Robinson: The Journey’

Originally launched in November last year as a PSVR exclusive, Crytek’s Robinson: The Journey (2016) made its way early this year to Oculus Rift via Oculus Home and also eventually Steam too. Critically missing however was official support for HTC Vive and any support for motion controllers. Now,...

Review: ‘The Gallery: Call of the Starseed’

The Gallery: Call of the Starseed (2016) is a first-person adventure from Cloudhead Games that's unashamedly a 'first' in many categories. As a Vive launch title, it was one of the most cutting-edge adventure games of its time, and although it's showing...
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