Denny Unger, CEO of Pistol Whip developer Cloudhead Games, touched on the difficulties of funding large-scale VR games in a recent series of tweets. On Monday Unger, who helped found Cloudhead nearly a decade ago, noted that he’d seen a lot of people asking where the next ‘big’ VR game was. More specifically, people have...
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Niantic, Hasbro Announce Transformers: Heavy Metal AR Game Coming This Year
Transformers roll out (onto mobile devices)! Transformers: Heavy Metal is a new mobile AR game using the Niantic Lightship platform, set to launch later this year. Niantic, Hasbro, TOMY and Very Very Spaceship are partnering up for the title. While the game will use the Niantic Lightship platform, development will be lead by Very Very...
Turtle Beach Reveals Elaborate Microsoft Flight Simulator Controller
Turtle Beach just announced a new PC and Xbox controller designed to be used with Microsoft Flight Simulator, and it looks incredibly detailed, even if some of its features won’t be very meaningful to VR players. The Velocity One will be launching in the near future and features multiple impressive components. It’s got a 180-degree...
Fracked Release Details Coming ‘Very Soon’, Play-Time Will ‘Pleasantly Surprise’
Release details for upcoming PSVR exclusive Fracked should be revealed “very soon”. That’s according to developer nDreams, writing on Reddit after the debut of new gameplay from the title at the Upload VR Showcase last weekend. Asked how much the game would cost, the studio replied: “We’ll be able to share more about that VERY...
Blaston Crackdown Update Adds Single-Player Campaign This Month
Later this month Blaston is adding a single-player campaign to its dueling shooter with an intense boss fight. The Crackdown update to Blaston arrives June 21st. It was announced during the Upload VR Showcase. Check out the details in the video below with a sneak peak at at the boss: Until this update, Blaston has...
John Carmack’s ‘Brutally Honest’ App Reviews Return As Regular Series
John Carmack’s “brutally honest” VR app reviews are returning as a regular series. Carmack, originally Oculus CTO, has been a technical guide for VR since before its 2014 acquisition by Facebook and, on occasion over the years, he’s offered direct feedback to VR developers seeking ideas that could help improve their software. The feedback from...
Full Course Golf Coming To Oculus Quest 2, Beta Signup Available
Topgolf with Pro Putt is getting full swing courses, and you can sign up for the beta today. The game, currently only available on Oculus Quests, initially launched in May 2020 as a putting-only experience. In November it added a full swing driving range with Topgolf minigames. The next major update will bring full swing...
4 Things We Love About Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual
Save for a pair of plumbers, gaming duos don’t get much older than Sam & Max. Though they may have started life in the pages of comics, multiple virtual adventures across nearly three decades have cemented the pair’s position as lovable, if often overlooked gaming mascots. After playing the first hour or so of the...
Survival Horror Shooter Dead Effect 2 Gets Surprise App Lab Release On Quest
Well this is unexpected. BadFly Interactive’s Dead Effect 2 VR has launched on Oculus Quest via App Lab. The game launched on the service last week for $19.99. As the name suggests, Dead Effect 2 VR itself is a full port of the original game. The VR edition launched in 2017 on PC VR headsets...
Retro Shooter Amid Evil Is Getting A VR Version
Publisher New Blood Interactive is working on a VR version of its popular retro-style shooter, Amid Evil. A teaser clip from the game was shown during New Blood’s section at yesterday’s PC Gaming Showcase, and developer Andre Elijah has since shared a better look below. The clip shows a player flipping an axe in-game before...