If you’re looking into buying shoes from DSW on Black Friday, then you can save an extra 20% — but only if you smile more. An augmented reality mobile web ad campaign created for the retailer by PadSquad asks customers to smile for the camera. According to a PadSquad spokesperson, as opposed to traditional banner...
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Steam Autumn Sale Includes Steep VR Discounts Until Nov. 27
The Steam Autumn sale is now live with a number of notable discounts on top VR games until Nov. 27 at 10 am Pacific. Here’s a list of some of the notable discounts live on Steam right now: Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes $5 (-67%) Dirt Rally $8 (-80%) Battlezone Gold Edition $9 (-75%) Titanic...
Space Pirate Trainer Blasts Its Way Onto PSVR Next Week
Space Pirate Trainer was, for many VR early adopters, one of the very first games to ever grace the lenses of their HTC Vive headsets. The game debuted on Steam in Early Access right alongside the Vive itself and was a picture-perfect example of how to do a wave shooter in VR that was both...
Oculus Go Is $179 For Black Friday, Rift Down To $349
Facebook’s Oculus is discounting the standalone Oculus Go headset around 10 percent at participating retailers for Black Friday through Nov. 26. The deal should see Oculus Go priced starting at $179, discounted from its typical $199, starting on Nov. 22 at 11:59 PM local time. We’ll note that many buyers opt for the larger capacity...
Gungrave VR Set To Shoot Up PSVR Next Month
Beat Saber may be out, but there are at least two more PSVR release to keep an eye on this year. One is Borderlands 2 VR, the other is something a little different. Iggymob’s Gungrave VR, a PSVR-exclusive port of a cult classic shooter, will be hitting the platform on December 11th 2018, which is...
The Enterprise Leap — Robots, Gremlins, & Games Won’t Save Magic Leap, but Tapping the Inner Child of CEOs Just Might
Mystery is a tricky thing. Used correctly, it can give onlookers the impression that wondrous and perhaps valuable things are afoot. However, once the veil of suspension of disbelief is removed in any significant way, that same mystery can quickly turn into not just skepticism, but outright anger at what may have seemed like an...
Marvel: Powers United VR Continues To Add Much-Needed Variety
One of our biggest complaints about Oculus Studios’ Marvel: Powers United VR is that it didn’t have much in the way of variety. Outside of a few unique heroes, you’d seen pretty much everything the game had to offer within the first few matches. But developer Sanzaru Games is slowly but surely changing that. This...
Firewall’s Second DLC Adds New Class, Weapons And More
It may have been a busy time for new PSVR releases of late but you shouldn’t forget about one of our favorite games of the year, Firewall Zero Hour. In fact, there’s a bunch of new content for the online shooter this week. Developer First Contact just launched its second batch of DLC for the...
IAAPA: The 10 Biggest Insights From The World’s Largest Amusement Expo
Whether you are in the market for a roller coaster, a water slide, or the latest VR experience – last week’s annual IAAPA Attractions Expo showcased the best of everything that an operator in the amusement park and attractions industry could need, with a trade show floor spanning over 600,000 square feet. Among the 42,000...
The Limit Review: Michelle Rodriguez And Norman Reedus Can’t Elevate This B-Movie Dud
In terms of ‘star power’, The Limit is about as good as it gets for VR moviemaking right now. This 180 degree short stars Widows’ Michelle Rodriguez and The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus, and is directed by Sin City’s Robert Rodriguez. That’s quite a turn out for a 20-minute short, but The Limit is proof...
