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What did the makers of the exquisite Virtual Virtual Reality do next? Something completely different. Launched today on Android smartphones, Tendar is an AR app that brings the developer’s surrealist imagination into the world around us. In it, you look after Guppy, a virtual fish that wants to explore the big wide world with you....

Crow: The Legend is the third VR project from startup Baobab after Invasion! and Asteroids!. A complete departure from the first two, this one is based on a Native American legend featuring an all-star cast of voice talent including John Legend and Oprah. With Baobab’s first title planned for adaptation into a feature length film,...

Hugely popular tabletop role-playing game Numenera is the latest to explore bringing its world into a VR headset, though not quite in the way you’d imagine. Despite the name, Numenera – Beyond Tactics is not a direct virtual adaptation of Monte Cook’s RPG. Handled by developer Boneyard VR, the game takes the world and lore...

Update (11/15/18): As of today, Echo Combat is now available on Oculus Home. More details below and you can read both of our previous hands-on impressions previews here and here. Original (11/12/18): The long-anticipated expansion to Echo VR is nearly here, and we now know how much it’ll cost. Oculus and Ready At Dawn today...

Oculus is adding beta support for DLC to its app store for Rift, though “full DLC support in the Oculus Store is not yet available.” The mobile store (Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR) received support for DLC shortly after the Go launch in May, when the company stated that Rift support was “coming soon”. DLC...

In Death is one of the year’s surprise breakout VR hits with its devilishly satisfying difficulty and addictive roguelike-inspired gameplay loop. Now, later this month, the bow and arrow-focused shooter will make its debut on PSVR, specifically on November 27th according to a new PlayStation blog post. Similar to The Persistence, a PSVR exclusive horror...

Unseen Diplomacy remains one of the best examples of what you can do with room scale VR. Launched alongside the HTC Vive in 2016, the game had you sneaking into a top-secret base James Bond-style, dodging lasers and crawling through vents, with rooms dynamically changing as you entered new areas. Despite being short, it was...

Releasing today, Voronium – Locust Sols is a pretty fun VR game. It’s a tower-defense experience with a strategic twist, letting you operate powerful turrets and fight back against hordes of spider-like bots. But what’s perhaps most interesting about the game from Gamalocus Studios is the platforms it’s appearing on. Voronium is first designed to...