Thanks to VR, I’ve stood toe-to-toe with zombies, killer robots, giant spiders, and psychopathic killers, but none of them were as intimidating as Tri-Tip. Knockout League’s first fight is with this Brazilian boxer. The match is a bewildering mix of both belittlement and empowerment. At first I cower at the site of this brute, sturdy...
Plenty of great VR games fly under the radar, but Neverout is one you definitely shouldn’t miss. This was one of the best Gear VR games of 2016, and soon it will be available on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. I know so, because I’ve played the Rift version of SETAPP’s first-person puzzler this week....
2016 could be considered the official introduction of virtual reality to the world and many industries have either embraced the technology at varying levels or simply started paying attention to movements within the industry. 2017 is going to be a pivotal year for the technology’s growth and there will be many events welcoming VR as an...
Double Fine, the studio behind cult classic Psychonauts (2005), last year announced a PSVR exclusive, Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, a direct continuation of the original story. Now the company has set the game’s release date and released a new 360 trailer. Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin follows a band of psychic spies who...
VR devices are home to some of the best asymmetrical multiplayer experiences out there. These are the sorts of games that pit players against one another in completely different roles. For example, Evolve from Turtle Rock Studios is a relatively popular (although with a mixed reception) recent asymmetrical game in which one player is a...
Something like a gamepad is often overlooked when it comes to the most essential, necessary items for a gamer to have in their arsenal. If you play on PC, then your keyboard and mouse are likely your bread and butter. Console gamers have their dedicated PS4 and Xbox One controllers — both of which are...
As much as Sony would have liked them to, 3D TVs never quite panned out. But the company has found a use for all those old 3D Blu-rays you’ve stored up over the past few years, and it involves PlayStation VR (PSVR). Sony today announced the launch of beta testing for the latest system software...
VR fans are eagerly awaiting the introduction of 4K displays into major headsets, but new LCD technology could help get them there and even go beyond in the near future. The Optical Society this week published a research report carried out by an international team looking into ‘blue-phase liquid crystal for field-sequential-color displays’. That might...
Right now, Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset is seen as a peripheral for its PlayStation 4 console. In the future, that perception might switch. That is according to Warwick Light, the head of PlayStation UK. Speaking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Light spoke about how VR represented the innovation coming from the company. “VR has...
Late last week we reported on data from Capcom that revealed at least 62,000 people had been playing Resident Evil 7 [Review: 9/10] with the game’s optional PlayStation VR support on PlayStation 4. One week on and that number has crossed a significant milestone. ResidentEvil.net, an optional service that collects statistics from RE7 players across...
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