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PSVR owners eagerly awaiting some new titles are in for a treat after Sony announced a fresh batch of new games for its virtual reality system. UploadVR reports that the titles have all come from Sony’s China Heroes Project, which supports the country’s rapidly booming VR industry. Nine PS4 games …
Read More »Patent application points to room-scale and wireless features in PSVR’s future
Patent talks about device emitting beams and wireless connection to PS4
Read More »Heard About: Robinson The Journey
John Broomhall talks with Simon Pressey about developing sound, dialogue and music for the flagship VR title from Crytek
Read More »Samsung shipped more VR headsets than Vive, Oculus and PSVR combined in 2016
A new report published by SuperData revealed that the virtual reality industry made $1.8bn (1.44bn) in revenue in 2016, with 6.3m devices shipped throughout the course of the year. Of these units, 4.51m were Samsung Gear VR headsets, making it the most-shipped headset of 2016. Sony’s PlayStation VR came in …
Read More »Nearly 10% of Resident Evil 7 players are PSVR users
Over 87,000 players around the world have played Resident Evil 7 in VR, Capcom has revealed. That’s according to new figures released on ResidentEvil.Net, detailing the game’s global statistics. As of January 30th, 87,196 players have opted to play Resident Evil 7 in virtual reality, making up 9.48 per cent …
Read More »Bringing Dirt Rally to VR: Interview with Paul Coleman
Develop speaks to Codemasters' chief game designer about developing the game for VR
Read More »Dirt Rally coming to PSVR as paid DLC and new physical edition at retail
Dirt Rally is coming to PlayStation VR in just a few short weeks, Codemasters announced today. The update will be available as a standalone DLC Add-on for existing Dirt Rally owners priced at 9.99 on the PlayStation Store, but a physical retail version of the game that includes the VR …
Read More »MCV’s Review of the Year – Part 1: Hardware of 2016
Here’s our take on the big events in the games industry this year. It seems to have been a year dominated by hardware rather than software, with lots of new devices in the shape of VR headsets, updated consoles, new reveals and a smash hit retro revival. Lots of ‘new’ …
Read More »Shared Rooms: Designing Multiplayer VR
Multiplayer will be key for the mainstream adoption of virtual reality, but comes with a fresh set of problems to surmount. Jem Alexander asks studios what stands between us and the perfect social VR experience.
Read More »Capcom on Resident Evil’s return to its horror roots
It all started in VR, in a dirty kitchen. At E3 2015, Capcom started showing off a PlayStation VR demo called Kitchen, a virtual reality horror experience that was – if nothing else – incredibly unsettling. At the time I speculated with my colleagues that this was Capcom teasing a …
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