Software Reviews & Previews
Our reviews and previews of the latest XR games and software.
‘Skyrim VR’ Review – The Other Side of the Immersion Equation
Skyrim VR is the first to launch in a series of VR titles from legendary game-maker Bethesda (with Doom VR and Fallout 4 VR soon to follow). The title is effectively a port of the now six year-old open-world...
‘From Other Suns’ Review
If FTL: Faster Than Light (2012) and the Borderlands franchise had a baby, the freakishly hard offspring would invariably be From Other Suns, a first-person shooter/spaceship management sim from Gunfire Games, the makers of Dead & Buried (2017), Chronos (2016) and Herobound: Spirit Champion...
Hands-on: Sony’s ‘Blood & Truth’ for PSVR is Aiming for AAA Scope, and Off to a...
Sony's London Studio—who built the well received VR Worlds experiences for PSVR—is back. This time around the studio isn't building a slew of PSVR samples, but rather a AAA scope action shooter in the same vein as the acclaimed...
‘The Gallery – Ep. 2 : Heart of the Emberstone’ Review – Longer, Stronger and Well...
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...
‘ARKTIKA.1’ Review – A Gorgeous VR Shooter, Plain and Simple
Arktika.1 is a first-person VR shooter that makes more than a few smart choices in its design, something that may have you thinking twice before dismissing its admittedly limited node-based teleportation style lock, stock, and barrel (holographic sight and flashlight too)....
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...
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...
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...
Review: ‘ProjectM: Daydream’
ProjectM: Daydream is a VR dating experience from Korean studio EVR Studio. While it's fairly short and only offers subtitles in a number of major languages to go along with the Korean audio, the experience of sitting across from a...
Hands-on: ‘Marble Land’ Promises Hours of Complex Physics-based Puzzles, Launching on All Major Platforms
Marble Land is a physics-based puzzle game from Devious Technologies, a Bucharest, Romania based studio. We got a chance at this year's Gamescom to pop into the unique little puzzler, which is slated to launch in the next few...
Hands-on: ‘Stifled’ Oozes Style With Its Terrifying Visual Re-imagination of Echolocation
Stifled is an upcoming first-person horror game from Singapore-based studio Gattai Games. Heavily featured at this year's Gamescom, in no small part thanks to their partnership with Sony Interactive Entertainment that's seeing a number of Asian-born titles coming West, we got a...
‘Lone Echo’ Review – Humanity and A.I. Bond at the Ragged Edge of Space
Sometimes sci-fi games need only put you head-first into a shiny new world, let you inhabit a universe seemingly ripped from TV and film, and call it a job well done. Then there's games that use science fiction as a...
Hands-on: ‘Augmented Empire’ is an Engaging, Story-Driven Tactical RPG for Gear VR
At this year's E3, we got a chance to go hands-on with Augmented Empire, a narrative-driven tactical RPG coming exclusively to Gear VR on July 13th. Created by Coatsink, the studio known for the Esper series and helping Boneloaf develop Gang Beasts...
‘Front Defense VR’ Review – Room-scale War Will Bring You to Your Knees
Having announced 'Vive Studios' at the end of 2016, HTC is steadily building up its first-party VR content offering. After a number of relatively well received titles launched under the umbrella of Vive Studios, we take the latest, Front Defense...




















