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Steampunk Adventure ‘Chiaro & the Elixir of Life’ Launches on Vive, Rift & Windows VR

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launched today on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets. After having popped in for about an hour, the scenery and characters really remind me of steampunk-inspired anime like Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) and Studio Ghibli’s Laputa : Castle in the Sky (1986).

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Sony is Bringing PS2 Classics ‘Gungrave’ & ‘Zone of the Enders’ to PSVR, Teaser Trailers Here

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Konami’s Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (2003) was originally released for PS2, but today the company announced during Sony’s Tokyo Game Show press briefing that it’s getting an enhanced version, including support for 4K and PSVR. Both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will eventually see support.

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‘Sparc’ Developer CCP Games to “Talk About Additional Platform Support Later This Year”

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Sparc is an intriguing 1v1 virtual sport created by CCP Games, the studio behind VR flight combat game EVE: Valkyrie (2016) and the iconic (non-VR) MMO EVE Online (2003). Less than a year later, CCP had added support for both the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR, and offered cross-play multiplayer between all three headsets.

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Escape H.H. Holmes’ Murder Castle In VR

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Next year will see the release of Martin Scorsese’s Devil in the White City , a film adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 novel detailing the horrendous activities of H.H. Navigate a booby-trapped hotel while evading the ‘Devil in the White City’ himself in this horrifying VR game. Holmes, America’s first recorded serial killer.

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NYT: Mandalorian Director Favreau Building Dinosaur Experience For Apple’s Headset

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His directing credits include Elf (2003), Iron Man (2008), Chef (2014) and The Jungle Book (2016), as well as most recently working on popular Star Wars series The Mandalorian for Disney+. In 2016, he worked on a VR narrative experience called Gnomes & Goblins for the HTC Vive.

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CCP Games CEO: “We expected VR to be two to three times as big”

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CCP Games , the Icelandic studio known for their long-running MMO Eve: Online (2003) , shuttered their VR production studios in a surprise move last year, selling off their Newcastle-based branch behind their multiplayer space dogfighter EVE: Valkyrie (2016), and completely shutting down their Atlanta studio behind sports game Sparc (2017).

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Sinespace Aims to Become the Second Life of VR

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If this sounds a lot like the 2003 smash hit social simulator Second Life , that’s no coincidence. Sinespace is currently available on PC via download or a web client, all OpenVR compatible headsets including the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Microsoft Mixed Reality, with plans for iOS and Android releases in the near future.