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Read More »Rise of the Tomb Raider has a PS4 release date
PS4 owners’ wait for Rise of the Tomb Raider will soon be over. The current Xbox and PC exclusive will be released on PS4 on October 11th, and will complete with some new virtual reality content for PlayStation VR. Furthermore, developer Crystal Dynamics has promised that the PS4 edition will …
Read More »Trials of Tatooine arriving on HTC Vive today for free
The Force is strong with this one. Back in March, ILM revealed an upcoming Star Wars virtual reality experience called Trials of Tatooine that would, for the first time, actually give folk the chance to swoosh about a lightsaber in a virtual world. Will is pretty much all we’ve ever …
Read More »Google cancels work on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive rival, goes all-in on mobile VR
Android-powered platform Daydream unveiled in May as successor to barebones Cardboard
Read More »Half of devs are interested in creating for VR (but only a third actually are)
HTC Vive leads battle of the headsets with 50 per cent of game makers exploring platform, while Oculus Rift attracts just over a third of the community
Read More »Steam has its first VR-only best seller
Raw Data has become the first virtual reality title to claim the top spot in the Steam charts. Although the game is currently sitting at No.2 in the charts, PCGamesN reports that it claimed the No.1 spot for a period following its Early Access launch yesterday. The 30 game (currently …
Read More »Submissions open for Google’s inaugural Indie Games Festival
US and Canadian studios with fewer than 16 members and a 2016 release under their belts invited to take part
Read More »Unity raises $181m to fund VR and AR titles
DFJ Growth leads round of series C funding for engine and services firm
Read More »All Oculus pre-orders shipped, four months after launch
Its Rift headset was released in March of this year, and Oculus has revealed that all pre-orders have finally been sent out to customers. That’s according to a post on the company’s blog, in which the firm also announced that all new Rift orders are shipping within two to four …
Read More »It will soon be easier to express emotion through games than in person, reckons Hideo Kojima
Metal Gear Solid, PT and Death Stranding creator highlights ability to depict temperature and VR as ‘getting rid of this framed square’
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