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RIGS: Mechanized Combat League straddles two newly emerging games markets. Could this be VR’s key to the eSports locker? Jem Alexander speaks to developer Guerrilla Cambridge. Virtual reality eSports have moved from sci-fi fantasy to near reality in just a few years, and UK-developed RIGS is leading the charge. The …
Read More »Read about the Past, Present and Future of VR in this week’s MCV
This week, we speak to three VR developers about working on the fledgling format. CCP discusses EVE Valkyrie and being a VR pioneer, Guerrilla Cambridge talks about RIGS’ eSports ambitions and Team17 and Three Fields speak about their partnership on the new bite-sized shooter Lethal VR. Elsewhere, VR expert Dave …
Read More »PSVR sells 50,000 units in Japan in first week
Seems to have outsold all big competitors, making development for the platform more attractive
Read More »Star Trek: Bridge Crew delayed to March 2017
Ubisoft has delayed its VR exclusive title Star Trek: Bridge Crew into 2017. Star Trek: Bridge Crew will now launch on March 14th 2017. It was originally due to launch this year. In order to deliver the best game experience possible at launch, we have decided to push the release …
Read More »Team17 signs new VR game by former Burnout makers
Games label Team17 is making its first foray into virtual reality with a new title from Three Fields Entertainment. Lethal VR is set for a November 8th launch. It is a virtual reality shooting gallery that Team17 says was built from the ground up for HTC Vive. The title is …
Read More »New figures suggest HTC Vive has sold over 140,000 units
News story from Chinese VR site suggests over 140'000 units have been sold.
Read More »PopcornFX reveal middleware use in PSVR launch title
Persistant Studio's particle effects software used by Sony London Studios
Read More »Razer acquires movie sound giants THX
Razer nabs majority of THX assets and all of its staff for undisclosed sum
Read More »PlayStation VR pre-orders in the "hundreds of thousands" as stock runs dry
Supplies of the PlayStation VR are running incredibly short after what Sony has described as sales totalling the hundreds of thousands”. The headsets are almost impossible to track down in the UK this week, with nearly all major retailers left out of stock. It’s not yet clear when stocks will …
Read More »Tiny sales forecast for Vive and Oculus in the US this year
Virtual reality may have to wait a while longer before it makes any meaningful impact on the market. VentureBeat reports that a forecast by Strategy Analystics predicts that just six per cent of Americans – that’s 11.4m people – will own a VR headset by the end of 2016. That …
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