Software Reviews & Previews
Our reviews and previews of the latest XR games and software.
Review: ‘ABE VR’ Puts You at the Mercy of a Robot’s Bloodthirsty Search for Love
Hammerhead VR is soon to launch their début VR film experience ABE VR, a horror experience based on the striking short film ABE (2013) from Writer / Director Rob McLellan. I find out what it's like to be the object of affection for a...
Review: ‘Fated’ is a Viking Age Adventure That Plays a Number on Your Heartstrings
I try not to let my emotions get the better of me, but in Fated: The Silent Oath, a first-person action-adventure game recently released for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, there's really nothing I could do to ward off the strange feeling...
Review: ‘The Climb’ is the Best-Looking VR Game I’ve Ever Played, But My Neck is Killing...
The Climb is a first-person rock climbing game from Crytek that offers charmingly realistic scenery alongside an interesting set of game mechanics that you may or may not fully appreciate. And as one person's experience may vastly differ from another's—a necessary preface...
Preview: ‘Pollen’ is ‘Gone Home’ for Hard Sci-Fi Fans, Motion Control Coming Soon
It's 1995. The world looks a little different after the failed assassination of JFK. In a bid to open-source all US and Soviet space patents, the Space Race booms into a new era of long-haul interplanetary travel—spearheaded of course by a...
Review: ‘Technolust’ is a Gritty Cyberpunk Adventure That Leaves You Begging For More
Technolust, like many others in the cyberpunk genre, stands on the shoulders of giants. Taking cues from neo-noir staples like Blade Runner (1982) and William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), the adventure game makes good on its promise to deliver the lovably gritty 'high-tech, low-life' atmosphere that cyberpunk fans are after,...
Preview: ‘Intone’ is an Audio-Visual Experiment That Could Worry Your Neighbors
Intone is an interactive audio-visual experience built by indie dev Dan Scott (aka 'wheatgrinder'), and while the experiment may seem fairly simple in concept—control the blocks with the sound of your voice—the effects are everything but. Beware: everyone in your vicinity will think you've gone...
Preview: ‘Moderat: Reminder’ is an Energetic VR Music Video set in a Beautiful Dystopia
Electronic music and dystopian worlds seem to go hand-in-hand these days, and with German electronic group Moderat releasing their third album in April, what better way to hype the release than with a VR experience of the record's first single, 'Reminder'?
Director Mate Steinforth and...
Preview: ‘Eagle Flight’ is a Kinetic Thrill Ride That Surprisingly Doesn’t Make Me Want to Vomit
Eagle Flight, the upcoming multiplayer game from Ubisoft Montreal, looks to be nearing finalization with the latest build we saw at the pre-GDC Oculus Gameday event. And while the game sounds like it ought to make you want to barf, we've finally got a...
Preview: ‘Damaged Core’ Takes Teleportation to a New Extreme in a Fast-Paced FPS
Damaged Core is a first-person shooter from High Voltage Software that's offering a unique solution to one of the biggest problems facing first-person games in VR today—locomotion. And while the game's own brand of teleportation may take more than a minute...
Hands-on: Ubisoft’s First Social VR Game ‘Werewolves Within’ Launching this Fall
Red Storm Entertainment, a North Carolina-based Ubisoft studio, is jumping into the world of social VR with Werewolves Within, a unique take on the Russian social deduction game Mafia (also known as Werewolf). We went hands on with the first ever...
Preview: ‘CasinoVR’ Brings Live Poker to Gear VR, Open Beta Now Available
CasinoVR, a free online casino, has today announced the general availability of its Gear VR app. Now cross-compatible with Oculus Rift dev kits, the social casino is making its inaugural launch into mobile VR with the help of SideloadVR, an app...
Explore Game of Thrones’ Castle Black in a New Fan-Made VR Experience
The Night's Watch has a sacred duty: to protect Westeros from whatever it is that lives beyond the Wall. But you don't need to take the sacred oath (or swear to celibacy) to traipse around Castle Black or experience the...
Preview: Explode Hordes of Sweet Little Kittens in ‘Kittypocalypse’
Kittypocalypse is a tower defense game from Bolvërk Games that gives you a single mission: stop the kitties at all costs.
Ok, they're not really sweet little doe-eye kitty cats, but rather evil aliens disguised as such, and that's what makes...
Preview: Explore and Plunder the Deep Sea with ‘Neptune Flux’
It's only really a matter of time until humanity befalls some Malthusian calamity, bringing with it roving bands of cannibals, face-eating pathogens, etc. etc. Don't panic! Because in Neptune Flux, a friendly dystopian corporation is recruiting submarine technicians for their deep sea...
Hands-on: ‘Budget Cuts’ Inventive Locomotion is a Lesson for VR Developers
Budget Cuts is a stealth-action virtual reality game in development for the HTC Vive. The polished experience has the player avoiding humanoid robots and attacking from the shadows with throwing knives and crossbows. The game's portaling locomotion system is...




















