Tag Archives: virtual reality

Peripherals specialist Razer has revealed its second VR headset. Dubbed The Hacker Development Kit 2.0 (or HDK 2.0 for short), this is a $400 piece of kit that’s set for a July release, according to GamesBeat. The hardware uses Razer’s VR operating system, the imaginatively called OSVR. Razer claims that …

Dave Ranyard reveals how a recent trip to China helped inspire his future dev plans

Publisher Bethesda unveiled its VR plans during its E3 conference yesterday, including two projects for HTC Vive. The first one is a virtual reality Doom experience, for which the publisher did not specify any release date. But the second, and potentially more exciting, announcement was that a VR version of …

Joost van Dreunen issues a stark warning about VR’s prospects, as the emerging medium struggles to surpass its negative mainstream perception

Sizzle reel teases more Battlefront content, Respawn’s lightsaber game, first glimpse of Visceral’s project

Have video games changed the world? Sure. Like any mass-market entertainment medium, games have had an impact. But our sector is on the cusp of a far more significant intervention that could have a very meaningful impact on a great number of lives. While all media can affect people through …

We talk to the boss of Take-Two about eSports, virtual reality, the state of E3 and the publisher’s acquisition strategy. How digital has transformed Take-Two’s business Digitally-delivered revenue, especially recurrent consumer spending – which we define as anything other than a full-game download, including virtual currency, add-on content and online …

In August 2011, over two years before we met, my wife had an accident on the way to work. She tripped on a tree root that was growing through the pavement, as we’ve all likely done at one time or another. It wasn’t especially remarkable or dramatic and should have, …

Star Trek: Bridge Crew is a social VR game from Ubisoft that wants to give players the chance to star in an episode of their own. The game, created by Ubisoft’s Red Storm studio, is due out this Christmas on PS VR, Oculus Rift and HTC. It is entirely set …

Back in 2012, Supermassive Games released its ambitious Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. Working with the BBC, the Guildford-based studio had pitched a multi-part adventure for PlayStation consoles. It was to star Matt Smith in the title role and was being created, lovingly, by real fanatics of the sci-fi TV …