VR Game
HTC Vive Consumer Edition Has Landed, We Unbox Room-scale VR
The HTC Vive is due to land on people's doorsteps from April 5th, and our in depth review is on its way then too. In the mean time, here's a sneak peek at what you can expect to get in...
‘The Gallery: Call of the Starseed’ Launches April 5th, New Trailer Revealed
After 3 years in development, Cloudhead Games are finally set to bring the first instalment of their made-for-VR series The Gallery to the HTC Vive, with release set for April 5th. To celebrate, they've released a trailer which reveals...
‘Damaged Core’: Building VR Locomotion into Gameplay
Part of the challenge of creating a first-person perspective game in VR is that there are limited locomotion options for moving around in VR in a way that's comfortable for most people. Damaged Core is a Oculus Rift launch...
Paul Bettner on the Launch of ‘Lucky’s Tale’ for Oculus Rift
When most people think about the types of things that want to do in virtual reality, then they almost always think of experiences that are from the first-person perspective. But Lucky's Tale proved to me that there are going...
You Can Access Oculus Home with DK2, Play Free and Paid Content Right Now
There's plenty of reasons to be excited for the Oculus Rift to arrive at your doorstep in the next few days (or months), but don't throw out that DK2 just yet, because there's still some life in the old...
Oculus ‘Dreamdeck’ is the One-size-fits-all Gateway Drug for VR
The Oculus Rift is arriving at people's doors today, and Oculus kept a couple of surprises back for launch day. One of these, Oculus Dreamdeck, is a bundling of a series of 'vignettes' used originally to demo a standing...
Unboxing the New Oculus Rift Step-by-Step in Pictures
Three years after the Kickstarter funded Oculus Rift Developer Kit shipped, the consumer edition Rift is here and it's an appealingly packaged piece of kit. We unbox the final retail package and share the process with you, step by...
The First $100 You Should Spend on Oculus Rift Games
Oculus Rift pre-orders have been hitting doorsteps in limited quantities for the past few days (the first pre-order got hand-delivered from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey himself), but today marks the official launch of both the headset and the headset's software platform,...
‘Project CARS’: Making an Authentic Racing Simulation Work in VR
Slightly Mad Studios been making racing games for the past 10 years, and they raised over $3 million dollars in crowd-funding to produce their own racing game called Project CARS. It's a AAA racing simulation game that was first...
‘Cardboard Enabler’ Opens Google’s VR Library to Gear VR, No Root Required
Are you the sort of person that lugs around your Gear VR and Google Cardboard on your mission to evangelize the ever-living-hell out of virtual reality? Well, the Cardboard Enabler for Gear VR wants to free up some space...
‘Bullet Train’ on the Latest Oculus Touch Makes You a Bullet-Catching Badass
If you didn't know you could catch bullets, Epic Games wants you to reconsider in their physics-bending VR first-person shooter Bullet Train. The game gives you a few well-placed commands in the beginning, and thankfully no lengthy tutorializing as such.
Time dilates...
Combining VR, RTS and Twin-Stick Shooting with ‘AirMech: Command’
James Green is the creative director at Carbon Games, and he was inspired to create AirMech: Command from playing a 1989 game called Herzog Zwei, which was one of the first real-time strategy games that also used a gamepad...
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...
Ben Gabbard on the VR Design & Gameplay of ‘Chronos’
Gunfire Games' Chronos is an atmospheric RPG with over 10 hours of action and adventure, and it uses a satisfying combat game mechanic that's very similar to their Herobound: Spirit Journey on the Gear VR. Chronos had a lot...
‘Defense Grid 2’ Proves How Compelling Tower Defense in VR Can Be
Jeff Pobst admits that it's probably not a new Rift owner's first thought to go out and buy a tower defense game, but Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition proved to me how compelling a tower defense game can...




















