After years of quiet development, Half-Life: Alyx is finally here. With hype on all sides—as Valve's first full-fledged VR game and the first Half-Life game in more than a decade—does it deliver? Read on to find out in our full Half-Life: Alyx review. Half-Life:...

Video games have induced many emotions inside me over the years but, I don’t think any of them felt as real as the shame I felt when the AI computer, on easy, sunk his final ball against me. As...

Budget Cuts, a first-person stealth VR game, has been eagerly awaited since Stockholm-based indie studio Neat Corporation first released a free demo in 2016. The demo, which quickly became a breakout success in the early days of consumer VR, demonstrated...

Electronauts sits at an interesting intersection somewhere between game, experience, and tool. Your experience with Electronauts then may vary depending upon what you hope to achieve with it. If you're anything like me—someone who can fall deep into music, but...

The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone (2017) comes a year and a half after Call of the Starseed (2016), episode one in the narrative-based adventure puzzle game series. As a successor to one of the first room-scale games in existence, the...

Garret Bullard hacks and slashes his way through the Zelda-esque, HTC Vive exclusive action RPG Vanishing Realms from one-man development team Indimo Labs, and finds one of the most engrossing room-scale VR experiences out there. Vanishing Realms Details: Official Site Developer: Indimo Labs LLC Available On: Steam (HTC...

Moscow-based indie developer Odd Meter isn't a household name in VR development yet, but with their latest game Sacralith: The Archer's Tale (2018), that may change somewhat. It's a surprisingly clever bow shooting game draped in impressively polished visuals...

Racket: NX (2018), the VR racket sports game, is now out of Early Access. Offering a surprising level of polish, fluid gameplay, and both an engaging single player and competitive multiplayer mode, Racket: NX has taken a fairly simple concept and...

Transference (2018) is a single-player psychological thriller that takes place in a shadowy reflection of reality—the  simulation of a family's collective minds who've presumably been corrupted after the father, a scientist, tests his breakthrough procedure on himself, his wife, and...

Galaxy Golf by developer Liftoff Labs disguises a fun physics puzzler as a game of arcade golf in virtual reality. Galaxy Golf Details: Official Site Developer: Liftoff Labs Publisher: Big Fish Games Available On: Steam (Vive, Rift) Reviewed On: HTC Vive Release Date: August 24th, 2016 Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFV6vPHUCVY The courses in this game are actually 3D...

Formerly known for its linear, story-driven VR adventure series The Gallery, Pistol Whip is a surprising shift for Cloudhead Games into VR's rhythm and shooting genres. Surprising as it may be, the studio makes a strong case for fusing the two,...

Pinball FX2 VR arrives tomorrow on Vive and PlayStation VR along with a popular new The Walking Dead themed machine. Originally a launch title for the Oculus Rift, the game will now be available on all three major VR platforms....

I find roguelikes to be somewhat masochistic. You play as far as you can even when you know death will put an end to every ounce of hard work you put in—all of it with the knowledge that when...

Channeling Journey (2012) and Viva Piñata (2006), albeit at a smaller scale, Fujii is a game about exploration and gardening with a dash of discovery. That's not to say that you'll be exploring epic landscapes or saving the world by discovering long-lost knowledge in...

After years of previews and teasers, Ubisoft make their long anticipated VR debut on Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR.  Eagle Flight has all the hallmarks of being a toe in the water for Ubisoft, but the VR world may...