Category: The SSVAR blog

The upcoming smartglasses from Facebook and Ray-Ban may have leaked ahead of their official reveal today. Twitter leakster Evleaks just posted a series of pictures that may reveal four different designs for the glasses. Each essentially looks like a pair of normal Ray-Ban glasses with cameras in the top corners of the rims. The temples...

Legendary Tales offers a winning mix of physics-driven combat and RPG depth. Read on for our Early Access impressions! Legendary Tales would be worth a look had it just successfully taken the Blade & Sorcery formula and applied it to a linear dungeon crawler. The game’s physics-driven melee combat is incredibly impressive, offering familiar fun...

A new update is available for Sniper Elite VR on all platforms, adding custom difficulty options and many quality of life improvements based off feedback from the community. Sniper Elite VR released two months ago for PC VR, Quest and PSVR and while this latest patch doesn’t bring any specific new content, it does offer...

Sony Interactive Entertainment today announced it is acquiring Firesprite, the developer of VR horror hit, The Persistence. The acquisition was announced over on the PlayStation Blog, though no financial details of the deal were disclosed. Firesprite itself is based in Liverpool, UK and features members of WipeOut developer Sony Liverpool, which closed its doors in...

It’s been years in the making but room-scale VR platformer, Eye of the Temple, is finally releasing next month. The game, solo developed by Rune Skovbo Johansen over the past five years, will hit Steam on October 14. You can catch the release date trailer below. Eye of the Temple Release Date Confirmed Eye of...

The third season of Echo VR kicked off this week, with over 50 new reward items to unlock in the Echo Pass. The new season is available now and runs until November 21, following on from Season 2 which began in June. According to the Oculus blog post, several reward tiers are available to unlock...

Atlas V, the production studio that’s worked on VR movies and experiences like Battlescar and Gloomy Eyes, this week launched its new publishing and distribution arm, Astrea. Short VR films and experiences are all the rage at festivals like Sundance and Venice (which is taking place this week), but not all of these works find...

Physics-driven co-op dungeon crawler, Legendary Tales, is launching on PC VR headsets in Early Access tomorrow. But we’re getting a first look at gameplay later today. We’ll be streaming the new game from Urban Wolf Games at 8am PT/4pm BST. We’ll be suiting up with the game’s co-op mode, taking on the dungeon with two...

Goon Squad, a custom map by Steam Workshop user G Kaf, provides Half-Life: Alyx players a new experience playing as a Combine soldier accompanied by two Combine buddies, trying to make it out of a quarantined sewerage system. Spoilers ahead for those who haven’t played Half-Life: Alyx’s main campaign. Released almost a year ago, this...