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LATEST REVIEWS
Review: Deadhead
Deadhead represents something a little different for the burgeoning gallery shooter genre on the Gear VR. Whereas Gunjack and countless other examples focus on lightning reactions that are locked to the direction you’re facing, here’s a title that takes a slow, methodical approach to its action, with…
Review: Dead End Alley
The human race as a decidedly dangerous fascination with the zombie apocalypse. Sure, it means the end of the world, but it would also lead to the creation of a new one in which survivors can smash heads with baseball bats and wade through hordes of undead,…
Review: Neverout
There’s a moment in Neverout in which you drop into the title’s central hub for the first time. It comes after around 20 levels of excellent puzzling action that plays on your understanding of gravity and comfort with heights, yet remains impressively comfortable itself. For a moment,…
Review: Dim Light
Videogame horror is at its best when it restricts the player. Resident Evil‘s biggest scares came in the age of tank controls and awkward camera angles, while Amnesia: The Dark Descent thrived on preventing players from fighting back against enemies they couldn’t even look at for a…
Review: Orion Trail
It must have been an exciting moment for Schell Games when it first considered the idea of porting last year’s crowd-funded ‘choose your own adventure’ title, Orion Trail, to virtual reality. With work on the upcoming I Expect You to Die already under its belt, the team…
Review: Snow Strike
Virtual reality (VR) designed for a young age is a relatively unexplored concept. The Gear VR mobile-based head-mounted display (HMD), for example, sets a minimum age of 13 for use, though co-creator Oculus VR hasn’t cited any specific medical reasoning for this. Even so, there are a…
Review: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
There are lots of great arguments against the claims that virtual reality (VR) is an anti-social technology. Oculus VR, for example, recently launched its own Oculus Social app onto the Gear VR mobile-based head-mounted display (HMD), and provided a glimpse into the future of online communication with…
Review: Shooting Showdown 2
A gallery shooter in the most literal sense, Shooting Showdown 2 from Naquatic is further proof that you can port pre-existing mobile titles into virtual reality (VR) and quite easily avoid disaster, despite not being specifically designed for the technology. It’s also a good demonstration for how…
Review: Smash Hit
Sometimes porting a videogame to virtual reality (VR) may not be about enhancing immersion so much as improving mechanics. There are certain genres that would benefit more from the inclusion of head-tracking input than the feeling of presence itself. The tower defence genre, for example, enjoys precision…
Review: Bazaar
Temple Gates Games’ Bazaar has received a lot of praise from the virtual reality (VR) enthusiast community since its debut. Originally revealed as part of Oculus VR’s own Gear VR Game Jam, Bazaar is a videogame designed to take full advantage of its host format, delivering a…
LATEST PREVIEWS
Preview: A Chair in A Room: Greenwater
It’s a classic horror scene; you’ve just discovered a clue to help you escape a grimy, abandoned cabin when a deer trophy sharply drops to the floor. A thin stretch of light pierces its way through a small hole in the wall where it once sat, daring…
Preview: Jeeboman for HTC Vive
Futuretown’s aggressive pursuit of virtual reality (VR) sees the developer lining up 3 titles for the forthcoming launch of the HTC Vive. While most VR enthusiasts will already be familiar with Cloudlands: VR Minigolf, A-10 VR and Jeeboman have garnered far less attention. VRFocus however, has recently…
Preview: Final Approach on Oculus Rift & Touch
Last year independent developers Phaser Lock came out of seemingly nowhere with the reveal of Final Approach, a high-quality virtual reality (VR) videogame obviously inspired by the likes of Flight Control on mobile devices. Debuting on the HTC Vive, Final Approach was a breath of fresh air…
Preview: The Martian: VR Experience
Virtual reality (VR) experiences that tie-in with movie franchises are nothing new. From Interstellar and Insurgent to The Walk and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, a plethora of motion-picture productions have been supported by VR projects that have invariably presented an intriguing new way to promote new releases.…
Preview: EVE: Valkyrie Single-Player
With EVE: Valkyrie confirmed not only as one of the launch titles for the upcoming Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD), but also offered as a free pre-order bonus for early adopters, CCP Games is keen to show off the latest build of its space combat simulator at…
Preview: Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality
Surgeon Simulator is all about struggling. It’s about the fight to save someone’s life while also coming to blows with a control scheme that doesn’t want you to succeed. It’s about picking up a saw and possessing the mental dexterity to position it over the patient and…
Preview: Project X-Ray on Microsoft HoloLens
The HoloLens isn’t designed to be a videogames platform in its first instance, Microsoft have stated, and yet numerous entertainment titles have already been revealed for the title. Big franchises such as Minecraft and Halo have already featured in the revealed line-up, and most recently a brand…
Preview: The Climb
Crytek’s commitment to virtual reality (VR) has been available for all to see for some time. A number of remarkably high quality technical demonstrations at various trade shows across the globe followed by the public release of Back to Dinosaur Island on Steam have lead to the…
Preview: Megaton Rainfall on PlayStation VR
Megaton Rainfall is a virtual reality (VR) videogame that at first seems very easy to dismiss. Graphical issues plague every moment of the opening section, gameplay is restrictive and the action is lukewarm at best. But then it does something wonderful; it makes you feel powerful. All…
Preview: EVE: Valkyrie
The eyes of the virtual reality (VR) community have been on CCP Games’ EVE: Valkyrie for over 2 years, as the title has regularly been heralded as the poster child for the Oculus Rift. This keenness will only increase now, as Oculus VR has confirmed that all pre-orders…