When we originally reviewed The Assembly, it felt like a game that was too little too late. It came out several months after the consumer launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with little reason to play it over other similar titles such as Technolust, which launched with the Rift, or The Gallery, which...
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Watch: BlazeRush Takes on Rocket League in VR With Free ‘BlazeBowl’ Add-On
BlazeRush, the 3rd person VR vehicle combat racer, has been a big hit with VR gamers for some time and now developers Targem Games want to take add a new, distinctly Rocket League dimension to the title with their latest add-on BlazeBowl. There were lots of preconceptions about virtual reality gaming around the dawn of the...
HTC Vive Is $700 From Black Friday Through Cyber Monday
Since it was first available, the HTC Vive room-scale VR system has been priced at $800. For comparison, the Oculus Rift and its Touch controllers will hit that same price when they start shipping in December. You might even need to add $80 to get a third camera that is said to offer full room-scale...
Livestream Recap: Expert ‘Tilt Brush’ Techniques, ‘Google Earth’ and PS VR Launch
Every week, we go Live at Five on Facebook and Persicope to show you all the latest and greatest VR experiences that we can get our hands on. Every show is shot using a green screen and an HTC Vive in the mixed reality mode to give you the best angles to watch. This week, we...
MekaMon Will Turn Your Living Room Into A Robot Battleground
Your living room is the next battleground. Reach Robotics is launching its MekaMon augmented reality gaming robots today. The Bristol, United Kingdom-based company has created app-driven robots that can battle in both the physical and digital worlds. It’s one more marriage of digital and physical games that bring toys to life. MekaMon comes from a...
‘Smash Party’ Is Pure Distilled Destruction Coming Free To HTC Vive
At the Smash Party this Saturday night party-goers in Hollywood stepped into a cage clad in safety gear and completely crushed to bits anything and everything. Smashhhhh pic.twitter.com/0uQrPeauZI — Patrick Hackett (@phacktweets) November 20, 2016 The party hosted by Chris Prynoski’s Titmouse animation studio was also the launch event for Smash Party, a VR experience...
Former id Software Exec Steve Nix Starts ForwardXP VR Studio
Steve Nix, former id Software executive and previous CEO of Yvolver, said he has started a new Dallas-based virtual reality development studio, ForwardXP. Above: Steve Nix is head of ForwardXP Image Credit: Yvolver “We are creating interactive content for virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality,” he wrote in a post on Facebook. “The focus...
Watch: ‘Special Delivery’ Brings Atari Classic ‘Paperboy’ Style Action to VR
Classic 80s Atari arcade game Paperboy is to get a spiritual (albeit commercially unrelated) successor in the form of a new Oculus Touch and HTC Vive title Special Delivery from developers Meerkat Gaming. Here’s what it looks like in action. An original Paperboy arcade cab, complete with handlebars. A stalwart of the 80s gaming scene,...
‘Yore VR’ is an Intriguing Medieval Open World Sandbox for HTC Vive
Ironbelly Studios and TectonicVR are bringing a new built-for-VR open world title to the HTC Vive, set within the medieval era, and it’s looking mighty promising too. Ever held a yearning to live in a time where life expectancy was in the low 30s, your days were filled gathering wood, murdering animals with sticks and...
‘V’ Brings Your Favorite Apps Into VR – Free Beta Available Now
How many times has this happened to you: you’re grinding across the galaxy in Elite Dangerous and the minutes are starting to tick by rather slowly. You sigh and try to remind yourself how amazing it is to be hurtling through the stars in an immersive virtual reality headset. As amazing as this technology is,...