Road to VR

MAY 18, 2018

Boss Key Productions, the North Carolina-based developer behind the unfortunately ill-received first-person shooters LawBreakers (2017) and Radical Heights (2018) , is out of business. While both games failed to spark commercial interest, leading to the closure of Boss Key, the studio head and former Gears of War lead designer Cliff Bleszinski took to Twitter in a cathartic post-mortem where he showed off a few VR games the studio had considered before its demise.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2018

Humble Bundle just started their big Spring Sale, which is now offering between 10-75% off on over 20 top VR titles. Notable games at $20 or under include Superhot VR, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, GORN, Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, Werewolves Within, and The Gallery Episodes 1 & 2. Links are below. Remember: the Humble Bundle Spring Sale ends May 24th at 10 AM PT ( local time here ).

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2018

Five new titles, generous prizes, and a more flexible tournament system could take VR eSports to new heights. Whether it’s the conventional headset technology used in Ready Player One, or the futuristic, cerebral connection featured in Sword Art Online, it seems as though the end goal for competitive esports has always been VR. So while titles such as Starcraft 2 and Overwatch may be positioned seemingly permanently at the top of the current esports food chain, the popularity of last years VR Ch

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2018

After launching the VR ‘VR Challenge League’ last year, Oculus and ESL are partnering once again for what they’re calling “Season 2” of their VR eSports initiative. Rebranded as ‘VR League’, the new season is offering $220,000 in prizes for competitors and an expanded game roster which will include the highly anticipated Echo Combat when it launches later this year.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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Cats and VR

MAY 18, 2018

The response to Pixel Ripped response during GDC, PAX East, and VRLA has been overwhelmingly positive and during that time the game was set to be released in May. The team has since decided to take a few more weeks to polish all versions of the game for a smooth release across Steam, Oculus Home, and PlayStation VR simultaneously. In a statement released today: We expect to have an update on a new Summer 2018 release date in the next few weeks, and want fans to rest assured that we'll have more

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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2018

This week the folks at Hyperbolic Magnetism are probably pretty pumped up about all the press they’re getting for Beat Saber. They first started development for this game back in 2016, and between then and now it’s been tested by hundreds of users. In its first couple weeks on the Steam VR store and Oculus Store, Beat Saber’s become a … Continue reading.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2018

Vertigo Games is hosting a free access weekend starting now for their VR RTS Skyworld, which will be available through both Steam (Rift, Vive, Windows VR) and the Oculus Store (Rift). Starting now and going through May 20th at 1PM PT ( local time here ), you’ll be able to play Skyworld for free. Vertigo is also putting the game on sale for 50% off the game’s regular $40 MSRP through the weekend, with the offer ending May 21st.

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