Paradox has created another hit by giving its audience the in-depth strategy war game it craves. Hearts of Iron IV has surpassed half a million copies sold since its debut in June, according to publisher Paradox Interactive. This World War II grand strategy game has players taking control of any nation with the goal of...
Ubisoft has learned a thing or two about virtual reality. The giant French video game publisher loves to experiment with new game platforms. Whenever a new one arrives, so do new Ubisoft games. With VR, Ubisoft has tried a number of things, and in October it launched its first VR game, Eagle Flight, a simulation...
I really want to deliver you some good news, here. I want to tell you that the Psychonauts, long thought lost to the fabled realm of cult classics, have made their triumphant return in a game that’s truly worthy of their twisted world of psychic agents. I want to tell you about a mind-bending VR...
Late last year, two surgeons from the Instituto de Ortopedia e Traumatologia de Jaraguá do Sul in Brazil started using a combination of 3D printing and the Microsoft HoloLens to help plan spinal surgeries. And now, with the rest of their team, they’ve successfully performed a surgical procedure on their first international patient using their...
Considering over 1.7 million people contributed $143 million to make the game a reality, it’s no surprise that painting doubt over one of the game’s coveted features can cause a bit of an uproar. Most recently, Star Citizen’s senior graphics programmer Ben Parry had the community up in arms when he seemingly squashed the potential of...
Alvin Wang Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC, and I had a chance to talk with him at CES this year about what’s happening in China. He provided me with a lot of cultural context, which includes support from the highest levels of Chinese Government to invest in companies working on emerging...
The great thing about VR is that I can not only do things I’d never do in real life such as shoot zombies, vanquish robots, and explore magical dungeons, but I can also do things that I could do in real life, but don’t have the access, skill, or patience to learn. One of those...
This list was originally meant to simply encompass some of the most emotional VR experiences we’d had to date. We came up with a list of affectionate, memorable pieces that left us with more to think about than many of today’s VR games. Once the list was assembled, though, we noticed something interesting; parenthood was...
A report on Thurrott.com indicates Microsoft is skipping an incremental hardware update to its Hololens in favor of a generational upgrade in 2019. The post by Brad Sams says tips he received from “several sources” indicated Microsoft canceled its second version of Hololens to focus on a third version that will take longer to ship but...
Neo-noir action-thriller John Wick (2014) has come to the Vive in its new VR wave-based arcade shooter John Wick Chronicles. Recreating the look and feel of the film franchise while offering up a heavy slice of gun play and plenty of moving targets, the game can be an exciting trip into the John Wick universe at times, but ultimately ends before it even begins....
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