VR games come in all sorts of varieties these days, from sit-down experiences to room-scale games. It’s all coming together nicely. That being said, the absolute best fit for VR games are still those genres that involve a cockpit. Racing games, mech battlers, spaceships or anything you drive and pilot from a seat works wonderfully … Continue reading Star Wars Squadrons VR Experience: A Killer VR Title
Oculus Quest 2 rumours simply will not die down. Despite no official word from Oculus, it seems each week there’s yet more speculation about Oculus releasing an update about their refresh of the popular Quest standalone headset. We’ve seen supposed renders of what the product will look like and some questionable rumours about what sorts … Continue reading Oculus Quest 2 Leaks Point To A Truly Next-gen VR Experience
The Oculus Quest doesn’t yet have a library of games and apps to match the Rift’s PC VR offerings. Yes, these days you can use the Quest as a Rift thanks to Oculus Link, but you can’t play that anywhere you like and need to be tethered to a computer. Vader Immortal, in its three … Continue reading Vader Immortal for Oculus Quest Review
If ever there was something like a fateful tweet, filled with portent, it’s this one. Valve has announced a new Half-Life game, but it’s not the comically-absent Half Life 3. No, it’s a VR game focusing on Alyx Vance, the co-star of Half Life 2. What is Half-Life? In case you don’t really understand why … Continue reading New Half Life Game is for VR?!
Retro gaming is making a massive comeback. As gaming matures as a form of entertainment, studios are digging into their back catalogues and providing us with access to classic titles. For example, the Nintendo Switch is a casual retro gamer’s dream. From almost-perfect Sega conversions by the games M2 studios, to good-enough offerings of classic … Continue reading EmuVR Merges Classic Games with Cutting-edge VR
Although GPU technology has been coming along in leaps and bounds for the last few years, nothing truly revolutionary has happened. We experienced a massive leap in graphical fidelity at the start of the Xbox 360 era, but everything since has been steadily incremental. Then Nvidia came out of left field with real time ray … Continue reading Ray Tracing and VR: A Match Made in Heaven?
No Man’s Sky is a game that people love to hate. A victim of an out-of-control hype train, Hello Games had a real problem on their hands when the game was released. The game that players actually got was actually pretty good, but compared to the game everyone thought they were getting, it was a … Continue reading No Man’s Sky Gets PSVR and PC VR As Part of Massive “Beyond” Update
Few people would disagree that developer Codemasters are the kings of making fantastic racing games. Titles like GRID and F1 2019 are a showcase to the finely-tuned gameplay sensibilities this studio has developed. The DiRT rally games are no exception and this writer has whiled away countless hours utterly failing to complete rally stages on … Continue reading DiRT Rally 2.0 Gets (Janky) VR Support
Who could have predicted that the most affordable and therefore most popular form of premium tethered VR would come from a console maker? It would have seemed crazy when we were still shaking our fists at the minimum PC specs for the Oculus Rift a few years ago. And yet, here we are. Sony’s PS4 … Continue reading What Can We Expect from PSVR 2?
On the 21st of May, the Oculus Quest finally released to the public. It’s a standalone, gaming focused system priced at $399 or $499 depending on the storage capacity you opt for. That puts it in the same price range as a modern console. That’s good, because the best way to think of the Quest … Continue reading The Oculus Quest Lineup Has Over 50 Confirmed Games
