The long-lived Shadowgate series is making the jump to Oculus Quest with Shadowgate VR. The app’s set to launch on the Quest Store on October 7th. The name Shadowgate may ring a bell to you. It’s a fantasy series that first debuted on Macintosh PCs all the way back in 1987. The series has seen...
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Skybinder Brings More Minimalist, Meditative Puzzles To Quest
Skybinder is a new minimalist, meditative VR puzzle game, available now on Oculus Quest. The release is just on App Lab for the moment, available for $14.99. The puzzles features constellations of dots, each of which has a number within it. You can connect dots to each other to form lines and then, as you...
Space Pirate Trainer Getting Multiplayer And Arena Play With ‘DX’ Update
Space Pirate Trainer players on Oculus Quest will soon compete with partners in multiplayer or play at arena scale in the expanded DX version of the game coming in September. If you haven’t played the defining wave shooter of consumer VR’s first generation already, now is probably the time to pick up Space Pirate Trainer...
New Beat Saber DLC Music Pack Releases August 31
Beat Games announced another new music pack is coming to Beat Saber in just under a week’s time, following on from the release of the Interscope Mixtake DLC in May. Building the beat toward a new music pack drop on 8/31. G e t h y p e! pic.twitter.com/zEhiv99e2o — Beat Saber (@BeatSaber) August 24,...
Vermillion Developer Interview: Making Realistic Oil Painting Accessible Using VR
Oil painting simulator Vermillion, available on PC VR and soon on Oculus Quest, is about as close to oil painting in real life as you’re going to get in VR. At least for now, anyway. But this new unassuming simulator app for VR headsets is doing something interesting — people who were previously uninterested in...
Oculus Quest 2 Returns To Sale With 128GB Model
After a short hiatus, the Oculus Quest 2 is now back on sale with its new 128GB model. The new device replaces the old 64GB model, doubling the storage space but retaining the same $299 price point. Facebook paused sales of Quest 2 in late July after complaints of skin irritation from a small portion...
I Expect You To Die 2 Review: A Worthy Sequel Rich With Detail
Schell Games’ latest is a worthy follow-up to a VR great. Read more in our I Expect You To Die 2 review. If there was ever a game to point to as an example of why details matter in VR game design, I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy And The Liar is it....
Anshar Wars 2 Coming To Oculus Quest, Developer Shares Footage
A remake of Anshar Wars 2, originally available on Gear VR and Rift in 2016, is coming to Oculus Quest. The developer shared footage on Reddit of the game running on Quest, announcing that the remake is currently in development for release in the future.. The game originally launched five years ago, back in 2016...
HTC Vive Cosmos, Pro Headsets Discounted In UK Sale
HTC is discounting its Vive headset range in the UK this week, as part of a back to school promotional sale. The discounts, available online through HTC in the UK , are fairly hefty and bring the price down on some of HTC’s older PC VR headsets. Here are all the deals available on HTC...
Clash Of Chefs Brings More Overcooked Action To Oculus Quest And PC VR Next Month
Ready for more Overcooked-style action in VR? Clash of Chefs will deliver just that next month. Flat Hill Games delivers another manic take on VR cooking on Oculus Quest and PC VR headsets on September 16 (and that’s a confirmed Quest Store release too). It was already available on Steam in Early Access, but will...
