Arcsmith, the new VR puzzler from Thomas Was Alone developer Bithell Games, is now available on Oculus Quest. The game was announced a month ago, and will blend storytelling and puzzles together in a sci-fi setting. You’ll be solving engineering puzzles that involve assembling machines, like radio and drones, and connecting their circuitry. To celebrate...
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Warplanes: WW1 Fighters Flies From App Lab To Oculus Store, Available Now
Impressive flying game Warplanes: WW1 Fighters is graduating from App Lab to the full Oculus Quest store. Update: Warplanes: WW1 Fighters is now available on the Oculus Store. The original story follows below. We first wrote about Warplanes in January when it was on SideQuest and in March it moved to App Lab where it...
Microsoft Flight Sim’s Performance Patch Works, But VR Still Struggles
Good news! There’s a slightly better chance you can now play Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR with your current PC specs. Asobo’s celebrated sim this week got an update with a ton of optimizations on PC, made possible thanks to the just-released Xbox port of the game. When it was first announced the team confirmed...
Fracked Developer nDreams Opens Second Studio For Live VR Games
Fracked and Phantom: Covert Ops developer nDreams is opening a second VR studio dedicated to making “live games for VR.” The new studio, named nDreams Orbital, is set to operate remotely (the original nDreams team is based in Farnborough, UK), and will be lead by Chris White. White previously worked on games like The Sims...
Steam Deck Can Be Used With Oculus Quest, Gabe Newell Confirms
You can pair Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck handheld console with an Oculus Quest, Gabe Newell has confirmed. The Valve co-founder and owner spoke about Steam Deck in an interview to IGN this week, re-iterating that the device is essentially a portable, handheld PC and therefore Valve won’t stop you from trying to connect anything to...
PS5 Sells 10 Million Units, Sony’s Fastest-Selling Console Yet
Sony’s PS5 console, which is soon to power its next-generation VR headset, has sold over 10 million units to date. That figure was confirmed by the company itself today. PS5 crossed the 10 million mark on July 18, 2021. Sony says that makes it the company’s fastest-selling console to date. That is in spite of...
Swords Of Gargantua’s Big Expansion Launches Next Week
Dark fantasy sword fighting game Swords of Gargantua is getting a big update on Quest and PC next week. The Tesseract Abyss 2 expansion hits the titles on August 5. Developer Thirdverse has been teasing the update with a number of videos over the past few weeks, the most recent of which you can see...
Zuckerberg is turning trillion-dollar Facebook into a ‘metaverse’ company, he tells investors
Following the quarterly release of Facebook’s earnings numbers where the company’s CFO takes time to walk analysts through the nitty gritty of the company’s financials, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a moment to zoom out and wax on the company’s future goals, specifically calling out his ambitions to turn Facebook into “a metaverse company.” “I wanted...
Supernatural Update Makes It Easier To Find The Right Workout
Fitness subscription service Supernatural is getting an update today that overhauls its menu system for quicker navigation to the kinds of workouts you want. The update is focused around new carousels in the menu system to navigate the library of 500+ workouts in the app. There’s new collections that highlight trending workouts that are popular,...
The Exorcist: Legion PSVR Update Offers Graphical Improvements
A new update is available for The Exorcist: Legion VR on the PlayStation VR platform, which makes some graphics and quality of life improvements. According to the developers Wolf & Wood, the update includes “new and improved game features and employs improved physics and locomotives, texture updates and upgraded animations for the various demons players...
