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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Justin Moravetz initially released a Proton Pulse demo to the Oculus forum in April 2013 in the days before Oculus Share. I wanted to develop VR games.” The developer told me he gave a demo of Proton Pulse and Vanguard V — a game he’d like to finish with funding support — at the first Oculus Connect conference for folks from Google. “I

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The studio says however in an X post that it’s currently looking to help transition staff from a number of positions, including animation, art, audio, engineering, game design, IT, narrative, production and QA—implying the layoff is fairly far-reaching.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

nDreams, the veteran VR studio, today announced it was acquired by video gaming group Aonic for $110 million. Since then, the company has underwritten a number of VR games, such as Little Cities (2022) and Powerwash Simulator VR (2023). The Farnborough, UK-based nDreams has changed a fair bit since its founding in 2006.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Instead, players will be revisiting popular chapters from past Panzer Dragoon games, including Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon 2 Zwei, and Panzer Dragoon Saga ; no mention of any chapters from 2002’s Panzer Dragoon Orta , unfortunately. . The post Sega Classic Panzer Dragoon Returning As VR Game appeared first on VRScout.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Join pick a side and join the battle for control of previous Exotic Matter in this modern revival of the 2013 location-based AR game. Thankfully, however, the data Niantic collected from Ingress’s short-lived years wasn’t wasted as it’s now being used for Niantic’s upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite AR game.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s been nearly five years since we played the Border Bots VR demo, then called ‘Border Patrol’ , which first introduced the game’s undoubtedly Papers, Please (2013)- inspired border guard simulation. Now the full VR game has an official launch date on PSVR 2 and SteamVR headsets.

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MAY 17, 2020

Epic Games continues its streak of killer freebies with Rockstar’s best-selling action-adventure game. Every Thursday at 8am PT, video game and software developer and publisher Epic Games offers players a new free game available via the Epic Games Store. More information available here.*.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

She’s even had songs written about her – and now thanks to a new licensing agreement with Sanrio GmbH and the Swedish based game developers, Bublar Group AB , Hello Kitty will be the center of a cool new AR experience for your smart phone. Image Credit: Sanrio.

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MARCH 2, 2021

Star Wars Pinball (2013) has been available on console, mobile, and PC for a while now. Developers Zen Studios recently announced the game is being adapted to VR for all major headsets, and it’s landing next month. Star Wars Pinball VR not only includes eight pinball tables, but also mini-games and plenty of familiar faces.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

CitraVR is an open source project released by Amanda Watson in early 2024 and is a fork of the existing open-source Citra emulator that started development in 2013. Step 3: Create A ROMs Folder After the installation is done, there's only one more step to get the emulator up and running, and that is to create a folder to store your games in.

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JULY 6, 2020

Case Files (2017), Rockstar Games is producing a new game which promises to be a “AAA open world title in VR” Video Games Deluxe, a Sydney, Australia-based studio working exclusively with Rockstar, released word via LinkedIn recently , stating that the company is currently hiring staff to build the VR game.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Breaking down the world of location-based AR gaming. Who remembers summer of 2016 when the very popular AR game Pokémon GO dominated the news cycle? At one point the game was so popular that people were listing veteran Pokémon GO accounts for hundreds of dollars on eBay, offering those interested an easier route into the game.

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JULY 9, 2021

VorpX is a tool which adapts many non-VR games to be played with VR headsets. VorpX supports a long list of games , allowing users play them using a VR headset along with various adaptations that make them more suitable and comfortable in VR. It supports all Oculus, SteamVR, and WMR headsets.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Despite having originally released all the way back in 2013, Rockstar’s fifth entry in their beloved Grand Theft Auto video game series is more popular than ever. Regular DLC updates have kept GTA Online feeling fresh; meanwhile, veteran players continue to spend absurd amounts of real-world money on in-game currency.

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MAY 10, 2017

Soon, you can rob banks and jewelry stores like never before with the team-based crime-spree game, Payday 2. The game itself isn’t new as it’s been out since August of 2013. Today, the creators of the game (Overkill, a Starbreeze Studio) have officially announced that Payday 2 will be receiving VR support.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Citra is an open-source Nintendo 3DS emulator for Windows that's development started in 2013. Once sideloaded, CitraVR starts with a 2D panel in the Quest home interface for managing and selecting games, transitioning into a full app upon launching one. CitraVR arrives on January 20 for the Meta Quest platform.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Dreadhalls is one of the first VR horror games made for the VR headsets which emerged with the rise of Oculus, and now the game is finally on Steam. It generates new maps each time you play so you’ll never experience the exact same game twice. You can also use a keyboard/mouse or a gamepad to control the game too.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Having been exclusively building VR games since 2013, nDreams stands as one of the most veteran VR-exclusive game studios to date. Starting in 2013, O’Luanaigh has navigated his company from the earliest days of the modern VR era to now, which he believes is VR’s biggest moment so far—and growing.

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MARCH 16, 2018

Payday 2 (2013) , Overkill’s 4-player bank heist co-op shooter, has offered a VR mode in beta for the past few months, but now it’s off the beta branch and pushed out as a free DLC to the main game. Before, owners of Payday 2 had to install the beta branch of the game to give them access to the VR features.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Slender: The Arrival, the survival horror game from Blue Isle Studios, is "coming soon" to VR. Initially released in 2013, Slender: The Arrival is the successor to Parsec Production's Slender: The Eight Pages, which finds the protagonist Lauren searching for her missing friend. We'll update this article if we learn more.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Originally aired in 2013, the story follows a close group of childhood friends as they struggle to survive a nightmarish world inhabited by man-eating giants referred to as “Titans.” ” The show touches a variety of genres, from action-adventure to political thriller.

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MAY 3, 2018

TSA Frisky is an upcoming room-scale game that turns the tables on travelers and their would-be airport security officers. The game, which appears to be a cheeky cross between Papers, Please (2013) and Job Simulator (2016), is slated to arrive on Steam for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows VR Headsets on May 17th.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. Like its 2D forebears such as GeoGuessr (2013) , Go Guess tasks you with investigating the captures by hunting for clues.

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JUNE 18, 2019

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re developing a VR game, you may be able to strike a deal with one of the most senior VR studios out there. nDreams, a developer and publisher of VR games, announced the creation of a $2 million fund which it will use to co-fund and publish externally developed VR titles.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Today NVIDIA has brought variable refresh rate support to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Variable refresh rate (VRR) technologies, including NVIDIA's own G-Sync, have been around for around a decade now, and allow a monitor to synchronize its refresh rate to the instantaneous framerate of a game.

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JANUARY 8, 2018

Colony Defense , a new game developed by Tactical Haptics to demonstrate the hardware, is a first-person experience with building and combat elements. As highlighted by the IMAX VR Centre partnership, the company is currently focused on location-based entertainment, and is working on multiplayer versions of both games for this purpose.

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JANUARY 9, 2022

When it comes to Netflix and their video game adaptations , Arcane , Castlevania and The Witcher instantly spring to mind. But Dota: Dragon’s Blood , the anime based on Valve’s 2013 MOBA Dota 2 , was a pretty entertaining romp when it premiered last year. Good thing, then, that new episodes are coming next week to give… Read more.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Behind the scenes is Robin Arnott and his team at Andromeda Entertainment, a games publisher serving the burgeoning community around mindful immersive entertainment. We have an opportunity to flip the distraction of games into a healing interaction. As Western art and culture grows to embrace the tides of mindfulness, our tools ?have

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Carmack joined Oculus in 2013 and worked with Palmer Luckey to develop and launch the original Oculus Rift. Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of how to design applications that are inclusive and how to use feedback from players to improve their games. Whatever you do. Do not miss this one. Designing VR for Women.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Joy Way , the studio behind VR titles STRIDE and AGAINST, announced it has another game in the early access pipeline. Outlier is offering up procedurally-generated levels, an array of weapons and characters, and is taking inspiration from indie greats such as Risk of Rain (2013) , Dead Cells (2018) , and Hades (2020).

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The idea is very similar to what we heard from Valve’s resident experimental psychologist Dr. Mike Ambinder during last year’s GDC talk on how BCI will change the nature of game design. OpenBCI says it will provide researchers and developers early access to Galea, intended for commercial and research applications.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

BAFTA-winning independent British developer Supermassive Games is proud to announce Shattered State, an interactive cinematic thriller for Daydream. With a branching narrative your choices have far-reaching consequences, impacting both the course of events and the outcome of the game. A Nation in turmoil.

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MARCH 16, 2017

After years of making some of the most impressive VR tech demos of their time, Epic’s Robo Recall is not only the company’s first VR game proper, but a culmination of what the company has learned about VR game and engine design since the beginning. I’d also played the game from start to finish and felt inclined to agree.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Beat Saber , the popular block-slashing rhythm game, is getting a new paid music pack soon that will feature eight tracks from Fall Out Boy. Listed below, the music pack spans the band’s early 2000s period as well as more recent tracks from when it returned from its 2009 – 2013 hiatus. Centuries.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

“The opportunity to ship more than a million units of a game is there now, with maybe 8 million units in the market. Founded in 2013, Survios is one of the most senior VR development studios out there, now with seven full-realized VR titles to its name. That’s been happening while we kept hearing about the trough of disillusionment.

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MARCH 24, 2022

With all the video game shows and films we’re expected to get in the near future, not many have the strange baggage that the TV adaptation of Halo does. Microsoft’s flagship shooter was first announced to be getting the TV treatment back in 2013, and has been in development for nearly a full decade—which is to say… Read more.

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