Good Goliath has you playing the role of a, well, Good Goliath. If you’re curious about whether this game is good, you’ll just have to read our review below. You’ve fallen from your home and landed on a world full of really angry short people who want to hurt you because they’re intensely jealous of...
Tag: #virtualreality
VR Melee Game Ironlights Launching April 9 With Multiplayer Crossplay
Multiplayer VR melee game Ironlights is launching on April 9 for PC VR headsets via Oculus and Steam, as well as on the Oculus Store for Oculus Quest. The game ran a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier in the year, and is now launching a full release after a limited beta that ran over the last...
Half-Life: Alyx Mod Recreates Half-Life 2 Environments And Assets In VR
A new mod for Half-Life: Alyx recreates environments and assets from Half-Life 2 in VR, using the Source 2 engine. Created by Vect0r, the mod is just a showcase for now and won’t be released to the public. It features the outdoor area of City 17 which Gordon Freeman runs through in the beginning of...
Community Download: Is Half-Life: Alyx The Best VR Game Ever Made?
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 think Half-Life: Alyx is the best VR game ever made. Why or...
Half-Life: Alyx Is The Highest Rated PC Game So Far In 2020, According to Metacritic
One week after release, Half-Life: Alyx currently sits at number one on Metacritic’s list of Best PC Video Games for 2020. The game has an average score of 93, which is higher than any other PC game released this year so far, including traditional non-VR games. Although you could argue that VR titles are a...
Report: Facebook Agrees To Buy Every AR Display From Key Supplier Apple Looked At Acquiring
Facebook signed a deal to buy several years of the entire output of a key AR microLED display supplier Apple looked at acquiring, The Information reports. Mark Zuckerberg’s company spends “billions” of dollars researching augmented and virtual reality technology. It has publicly stated its goal of releasing lightweight AR glasses this decade, with the eventual...
The Walking Dead, Gorn Devs Provide Updates On PSVR Ports
Two of the most anticipated PSVR ports on the horizon seem very close to release. Both the developers of The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners and Gorn provided updates on their respective ports this week. For The Walking Dead, Skydance Interactive tweeted a message to assure that the team was “adjusting as best we can”...
Guest Editorial: We Need To Talk About The Ethics Of VR Now, Before It’s Too Late
Last year, while on stage giving my TEDx Talk on the immortalising power of VR, I found myself saying this: “Imagine if, ten years after her death, I could relive the memory of my grandma teaching me how to waltz in her living room? And imagine if, even decades after she passed away she could...
Nvidia Develops Lightweight VR Gaze Tracking System Using LED Sensors
All of the world’s top virtual reality headset makers agree that gaze tracking is going to be fundamental to the next generation of VR hardware, as the ability to sense an eye’s position in real time enables a computer to optimize detail rendering, and even offer cursor controls without the need for hand or head movements. But gaze tracking hardware...
WW2 RTS Final Assault Storms Onto PSVR Next Week
Sony’s PSVR indie streak keeps on going; Phaser Lock Interactive’s Final Assault hits the headset next week. The World War 2-era VR real-time strategy game (RTS) arrives on PSVR on March 31. This version of the game will feature cross-play with the previously-released PC VR versions too. Cross-play between consoles and PC is a great...
