As a big fan of RPGs, The Bard’s Tale is dear to me. It was a game I would play on the Apple IIe in study hall back in the day when teachers thought any kid using a computer was learning something; little did they know all I was learning about was where I could...
Tag: virtual reality
25 Minutes of New ‘ARKTIKA.1’ Oculus Touch Gameplay
Launching in Q3 2017, ARKTIKA.1’s polish and presentation has quickly risen it up the ranks to one of the year’s most anticipated VR titles. And though it’s still months away, we’ve got a new glimpse at a chunk of the game’s opening mission. From 4A games, the creators of Metro series, Arktika.1 is an impressive...
‘Mage’s Tale’ Aims for 10 Hours of Hand-crafted VR Dungeon Crawling
Mage’s Tale is a new title in the works for Oculus Touch by inXile Entertainment that wants to deliver a meaty VR adventure RPG that has you dwelling in dark dungeons for some 10 hours. Some of the best VR games out there have users begging to have them made into longer and deeper VR...
Hands-on: ‘ARKTIKA.1’ is Gun-Centric, Highly Detailed and Ready to Impress
Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2017 is here, and Oculus is showing off a bevy of games that are due out sometime later this year. Among them was an entirely new level of ARTIKA.1, a sci-fi shooter from 4A Games‘ Malta-based studio that aims to get gun freaks excited as you plug away at human raiders and horrific creatures alike...
‘Killing Floor: Incursion’ Makes You a Co-op Zombie-Killing Machine
Killing Floor: Incursion is an Oculus Touch exclusive co-op horror shooter from Tripwire Interactive, the makers of the Killing Floor franchise. Tripwire refers to it as a ‘horde shooter’ instead of wave shooter per say, as the zombies that populate the world come right up to you en masse in giant hordes much like the other Killing...
Hands-on: ‘Brass Tactics’ is a True Tabletop RTS with All the Classic Trimmings
At Oculus’ off-site GDC demo booth we saw Brass Tactics, Hidden Path Entertainment’s new real-time strategy game coming exclusively to Oculus Touch after their hit tower defense game Defense Grid 2 Enhanced VR Edition (2016). Filled with a bevy of miniature structures and multiple toy soldier units, the little tabletop world promises to deliver familiar RTS gameplay in a VR setting. Putting on the headset,...
‘Twisted Arrow’ Puts a Superpowered Bow at the Center of Phaser Lock’s Next VR Title
Whereas traditional FPS titles have settled on the gun as a primary weapon, it seems the bow & arrow is increasingly becoming a favorite of the VR FPS. Twisted Arrow, the next title from Phaser Lock (the studio behind the well received Final Approach) lets the player wield a superpowered bow for high-action gameplay. Compared...
GDC 2017: Vive ‘Working’ to Join Oculus on a Committee for Open VR Standards
Earlier this morning the Khronos Group announced a name and details for its open virtual and augmented reality standard committee. Christened now as the Open XR Working Group, the organization will be comprised of representatives from the worlds leading AR/VR companies. Today’s announcement indicated that most of the major VR imprints have been granted membership into...
Ubisoft’s Rabbids Are Coming To Google Daydream
Ubisoft’s next VR game isn’t based off of its better known, grittier franchises like Assassin’s Creed, Watch Dogs or Rainbow Six, it’s based off of its cartoonish Rabbids series. Yes, the very same screaming Rabbids that first featured in a Rayman game years back before splitting off to make a franchise of their own. Today,...
Oculus 1.12 Update Rolls Out To Improve Tracking Quality
It’s the first day of GDC and lots of VR companies are making lots of announcements about the future of VR. Oculus’ big announcement of the day, however, should be in people’s hands either now or very soon. Facebook’s VR team is now rolling out the promised 1.12 update, eagerly awaited by Rift owners that...
