Software Reviews & Previews

Our reviews and previews of the latest XR games and software.

Software Reviews & Previews

Our reviews and previews of the latest XR games and software.

‘Lone Echo II’ Roughly 50% Larger Than Its Predecessor, E3 Demo Reveals New Gameplay

This week at E3 2019, Oculus is showing their first ever demo of Lone Echo II, the anticipated followup to 2017's Lone Echo. While the first game was an achievement in VR locomotion, interaction, and storytelling, Lone Echo II aims to...

Hands-on: ‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Boasts Smart VR Design and Big Potential

At E3 2019 this week, I got a chance to go hands-on with Phantom: Covert Ops, an Oculus Studios exclusive in development by nDreams. The game plays out over the course of a single night, and follows a special operative...

‘Blood & Truth’ Review – Action Movie Antics With Unmatched Character Visuals

Sony's next big PSVR exclusive, Blood & Truth is finally here. This action adventure aims to make players feel like the lead character in an action movie, and brings strong gunplay and big set pieces to the table. But its...

With Room-scale Tracking & No Tether, ‘Racket Fury: Table Tennis’ Feels Great on Quest

Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR has been a solid VR ping pong offering for existing headsets since its release in 2017. The game is confirmed to be launching alongside Oculus Quest, which brings with it some interesting advantages which make...

‘Star Wars Vader Immortal’ Review on Quest – Come for the Story, Stay for the Lightsabers

Though Oculus Quest still doesn't launch until the 21st, Oculus has seen fit to give us full access to one of its biggest launch titles: Star Wars Vader Immortal – Episode 1. This "narrative virtual reality adventure" does a...

‘Vacation Simulator’ Review – A Relaxing Change of Pace Full of Familiar Whimsy

As a day-one launch title for HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus Rift's Touch controllers, Job Simulator (2016) was an ideal first VR experience; it's so simple anyone can immediately put on a headset and get to exploring the comically bad interpretation...

Hands-on: Oculus Quest is Ready and Able to Handle ‘Beat Saber’s’ Highest Difficulty

Beyond being a great VR game, Beat Saber has inadvertently turned out to be an excellent benchmark of controller tracking performance, and thus a great test for the upcoming Oculus Quest standalone headset, the first from the company to feature inside-out...

Hands-on: ‘No Man’s Sky’ in VR Promises a Galaxy Full of Possibilities, with Friends

After years of requests, No Man's Sky is coming to VR this Summer. With a massive procedurally generated galaxy to explore and a range of ways to play, the scale of No Man's Sky is something that hasn't yet...

‘Space Junkies’ Review – Reviving a Bygone Era of Arena Shooters with VR

It's been a while since I really dove into a multiplayer shooter without any of the new hotness in game mechanics slathered on top; I'm talking about the hero-centric games like Overwatch, or the rash of battle royales like Apex Legends,...
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Exclusive: ‘Audica’ Preview & Track Reveal – Blast the Beat

Audica is the intriguing upcoming VR "rhythm shooter" from veteran rhythm gaming studio Harmonix. Today we've got a preview of the game through an exclusive first look at one of the 10 tracks that will ship with the game's...

‘Final Assault’ Early Access Review – a Charming & Engrossing RTS on the Rise

Virtual reality has absorbed a number of traditional mouse-and-keyboard games and turned them into something that can truly only exist in the medium. And while Final Assault, an online multiplayer real-time strategy game, takes some pretty tried and true classic RTS game...

VR is the Face of Future Entertainment at a Major San Jose Cinemark Theater

Cinemark, a major US movie theater chain, this week welcomes the SPACES VR attraction to its Century 20 Oakridge theater in San Jose, CA. The attraction, which currently offers a Terminator Salvation VR experience for up to four players,...

Zero Latency’s Next Title is Tackling the Challenges of Location-based PVP

Zero Latency is an Australia-based creator of a VR attraction platform and content. Since its founding in 2013, the company has launched five co-op VR games supporting up to eight players. The company's latest game, Sol Raiders, is the first...

‘Angry Birds VR’ Review — Redefining a Mobile Powerhouse for the Virtual Age

With several mobile titles in Rovio's Angry Birds series using the winning formula of 'fling the bird to kill the pig', I wasn't sure what I was in for with Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs—an honest-to-goodness game, or a cleverly...

‘A Fisherman’s Tale’ Review – A Delightful, But Brisk Encounter with Untapped Potential

A Fisherman's Tale puts you in the boots of a curios puppet-man named Bob who lives in a strange, recursive world centered around a dollhouse-sized lighthouse. Looking above, you see infinitely Big Bob. Looking below, infinitely Small Bob. It...
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