Halloween has arrived, in all its spooky splendour. While many people will be out trick or treating or at a party or doing something social, at VRS we will be indulging in some of the best scary experiences in Virtual Reality. VR is a particularly great medium for horror, as a foreboding atmosphere and mounting … Continue reading Top 5 Spooky Halloween VR Experiences
In exciting news for Mech combat fans, Zone of the Enders 2, Hideo Kojima’s 2003 game about insurgency on a future Martian colony, is coming to the Playstation 4 and PC, with complete support for virtual reality via Playstation VR for its particularly balletic form of combat. Sony announced the news today at their section … Continue reading Zone of the Enders 2 Getting PSVR Support, Releases 2018
So Nintendo have said that they’ll probably give VR a skip. Why? They don’t think it’s really fun. Oh Nintendo. You’ve been consistently surprising during this current generation of console gaming. Not in the way we’ve all come to know the company, but in a surprisingly unsurprising way. Confused? You see, Nintendo has never been … Continue reading Nintendo isn’t Keen to Get Into VR
One of the best games currently available for VR, Enhance Games’ Rez Infinite has released on Steam and the Oculus store with no pre-release warning or hype, to the delight and surprise of Rift and Vive users on PC. The game is currently available for £15.99 (or your regional equivalent) on Steam and the slightly … Continue reading Rez Infinite Releases on Steam, Surprising Everyone
In another case of “of course they did” we’ve heard reports by our weird friends from the Land of the Rising Sun that dudes are now marrying VR girls. Don’t believe us? Go ahead, watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYNdiLrvwzA Your eyes are not deceiving you friends, you’re looking at the future right there. Wait a Minute… … Continue reading Well That Escalated Quickly: Dudes Marrying VR Women
The Xbox “Scorpio”, Microsoft’s answer to the higher-performance Playstation Pro, finally has an official name: the Xbox One X. The jury is still out on what we should actually call this new machine from Microsoft. While the original has been lovingly dubbed the “Xbone” (despite mild protest) there still isn’t a cheeky name for this … Continue reading The Xbox One X: Is VR Incoming?
The innovative minds at Nintendo launched the Switch on 2nd March 2017. The aim and indeed the marketing is that it’s both a pretty powerful handheld console that docks into a charging station and becomes a full games console. Like many Nintendo systems the aim is not necessarily to bring people the latest and most … Continue reading The Red and Black legacy of the Virtual Boy
It’s a good time to be a webslinger. Insomniac Games’ PS4 game based on everyone’s favourite awkward super hero was one of the highlights of this month’s E3 presentation. Marvel Films have finally got access to Spider-Man for their cinematic universe, and the resulting movie, Spider-Man Homecoming appears to be a lot of fun. Best … Continue reading Spider-Man Homecoming is Swinging into Virtual Reality for Free
Hot on the heels of the Evangelion VR experience, comes the announcement of Mario Kart Arcade GP VR. A (currently) arcade-only VR title that puts you in the seat of the iconic Nintendo characters that like to tool around a magical go kart track in their spare time, hurling fruit, animal parts and other weird … Continue reading Mario Kart VR Keeps Arcades Relevant a Little Longer
Another year, another round of the Electronic Entertainment Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Centre. As the absolute centre of gaming, all eyes have been on the event to present the biggest showcase for upcoming hardware, games and major developments. Needless to say it hasn’t disappointed VR fans. While there wasn’t a major hardware release … Continue reading All the Virtual Reality Highlights from E3 2017
