There are cool themed PC builds, and then there’s this amazing Half-Life: Alyx tribute. The PC, built on Nvidia’s official GeForce Garage YouTube channel, comes kitted with a custom 3D printed faceplate that looks like its straight out of City 17. In fact, you could mistake it for one of the Combine lockers that you...
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SpellPunk Is A Vibrant Magic-Dueling VR Game Coming This Month For PC VR
SpellPunk is a newly announced magic-dueling VR game with a bright, neon-tinted art style featuring vibrant magical effects and immersive hand-gesture gameplay that tasks players with drawing runes in the air to cast spells. Incineration Productions is a new indie game studio established in 2018 and SpellPunk is set to be their first release and...
Play Any MP3 With VR Rhythm Game Audioshield On Oculus Quest
The original VR music rhythm game, Audioshield, is coming to Oculus Quest this week (April 16th) and will let you play automatically generated maps from any MP3 stored on your device. Read our original review of the PC VR version right here. Fans of more recent VR rhythm games like Beat Saber might not realize...
Valve Seeking Demos For Summer Steam Game Festival
Valve is launching the summer edition of its Steam Game Festival on June 9, 2020, and looking to spotlight upcoming games. Developers are encouraged to register their interest by April 24. You can visit https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/steamgamefestival for details and to register. Valve is looking for games that plan to release before summer 2021 to include in...
Community Download: Would You Rather Be In A Zoom Video Call Or Meet In VR?
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today’s Community Download, we want to know if you’d rather meet up with colleagues, friends, and family in a Zoom or...
Unplugged: Air Guitar Is Like Guitar Hero And Rock Band But Powered By Oculus Quest Hand Tracking
A video teaser popped up for a VR game on Oculus Quest that uses controller-free hand tracking for a familiar musical experience similar to Rock Band and Guitar Hero. And it already carries the perfect name — Unplugged: Air Guitar. The game is a side project by Ricardo Acosta that he’s been working on at...
Watch: Half-Life: Alyx XenThung Horde Mode Mod Is Frantic Fun
Half-Life: Alyx is amazing, but once you’ve seen the story through, there’s little else to do other than to play it through again. The Half-Life: Alyx XenThung Horde Mode mod changes that. This new mod, released over the weekend by fan developer Manello, includes a full, wave-based Horde Mode for Alyx. Horde Modes, which serves...
Layers Of Fear VR: Cheap Jump Scares And Even Cheaper VR Implementation
Layers of Fear VR released late last year, but we didn’t get the chance to review it at the time. Now that the VR world has settled down post-Half-Life: Alyx, we thought we would check it out. Much like horror in cinema, the best kind of horror in VR is when there’s a mixture of...
Flight Unlimited Is Not The VR Flight Sim You’re Looking For – Quick Review
Flight sims make perfect sense for VR, but there are precious few offerings out there on the market. Imagine our delight when Flight Unlimited popped up on Oculus Go, then. Sadly, this is not the VR flight sim you’re looking for, and it’s not a great arcade experience either. This is a bit of an...
Phantom: Covert Ops Studio CEO ‘Wouldn’t Expect’ PSVR 2 Announcement This Year
With Sony’s PlayStation 5 on the horizon, the VR community is hungry for news on a potential PSVR 2. But the CEO of one of the biggest VR studios out there warns we’ll likely have to be patient on that front. Patrick O’Luanaigh, who heads up Phantom: Covert Ops developer nDreams, said as much in...
