UK-based VR developer nDreams is making its move into the VR arcade scene, bringing two of its most popular titles with it. The studio this month announced both Shooty Fruity Arcade and Perfect Balloon Flight. The former is obviously based on the developer’s well-received 2017 wave shooter, Shooty Fruity, in which players try to fend...
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Oculus Made It Easier For Unity Devs To Port Rift Games To HTC Vive
Facebook’s Oculus released a new update to its Unity integration package to make it easier for developers of Rift-only games to port to HTC Vive. The new “cross-platform development support” was added in version 1.31.0. The release notes state that this is an experimental feature, and that it “may change or be removed”. The Situation...
Oculus Rift+Touch For $315 / Oculus Go For $162 Via Black Friday Friend Referral
UPDATE: the friend referring does not need to own the specific headset you are buying If anyone you know has an Oculus headset, you can currently get an Oculus Rift+Touch for just $314.10 or Oculus Go for just $161.10. The Go price is USA-only, but the Rift price can be attained in any of the...
Scraper: First Strike Review – Wave Shooter Hidden Under the Promise Of An RPG
In Scraper: First Strike you take on the role of mute protagonist Casey Maxwell, a hoverpod pilot who is relentlessly called upon to serve the plot for no other reason than, “You’re our only hope!” As such, you’re thrown from objective to objective without much of a motivation other than being told to do so....
Game of Thrones Author: Current VR Is ‘Like The Theater Before Shakespeare’
Game of Thrones is coming back soon-ish! Yay! But before we return to the world of Westeros and Essos, author George R. R. Martin has another universe for us to check out, and you can do so in VR. Syfy just launched a series of 360-degree tie-in videos to its new series, Nightflyers, which is...
Beat Saber Finally Launches On PSVR For $29.99
The day is finally here! Beat Games’ Beat Saber is finally available on PSVR, and that means we now know the price. The game costs $29.99 on the US PS Store and £24.99 on the UK one. There’s no retail version of the game so that’s the final price. It’s $10 more than the $19.99...
TankVR Is A Team-Based Vehicular Combat Game
TankVR wants to bring you the experience that the arcade’s World of Tanks VR didn’t, but it needs your help to get there. Developer Daniel Bedrich just launched a Kickstarter campaign for his vehicular combat game, which launched in Early Access on Steam last month. Unlike World of Tanks, which basically allowed players to control...
Beat Saber DLC: Devloper Planning 30 New Songs
Still enjoying Beat Saber on your Rift, Vive, or now on PSVR? Well that’s good, because there’s plenty of new content on the way. During a livestream celebrating this week’s launch of the PSVR version of the VR hit (which you can see below), Beat Games talked about its plans for adding new songs. The...
Beat Saber PSVR Launch Giveaway Livestream
Today is finally the day: Beat Saber launched on PSVR! The viral sensation VR rhythm game that tasks you with slicing neon blocks to the beat of the music with electrified sabers is now out on Sony’s flagship VR device. For the launch this version of the game includes five all-new tracks, a new campaign...
Vermeer Beta iPhone App Lets You Use Augmented Reality to Map Out Your Drone Flight
Augmented reality and drones already go together like turkey and stuffing, but a new iOS app adds some spice to the combination with a new kind of flight path automation. Available now in Apple’s App Store, the Vermeer Beta app displays a 3D map of the intended drone flight area so that pilots can see...
