Big tech players like Meta and Apple see the ultimate destiny of XR as a replacement for the smartphone. One of VR’s leading studios makes the case that there’s much to be lost in the transition to that future of XR if the talent and techniques built over the last decade of virtual reality aren’t carried through.

Guest Article by Denny Unger

Denny Unger is CEO and Chief Creative Officer at Cloudhead Games, a 60+ person VR studio based […]

Skydance’s BEHEMOTH (2024) just got a major update called ‘The Rites of Wrath,’ which brings two new game modes to the VR adventure game—’The Arena’ and ‘The Behemoth Trials’.

Arena Mode Leaves Beta

Arena Mode was initially available in beta when the game launched in December 2024, although it lacked a progression system and only had on map to play through.

In today’s update, Arena Mode is adding two new maps, including both daytime and nighttime modes for all three on offer, making for six total randomized maps.

Resolution Games today showed off its first gameplay clip of the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons-themed version of Demeo (2021), the hit VR-supported tabletop action RPG.

Initially announced in January, Resolution Games and Hasbro’s Wizards of the Coast have finally showed off Demeo x DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Battlemarked in action, including a brief look at gameplay, environments and settings.

As we imagined, gameplay looks largely to be the same as Demeo, pitting up to four online players against monster-filled dungeons.

VR indie Retrocell announced its working on a liquid physics simulator that lets you go hands-on on with some very slimy creations.

Targeting Quest and SteamVR headsets, Slime Lab isn’t just about creating different slimes for fun, but making cold hard cash by fulfilling custom orders and bottling them up for your fellow slime lovers.

You’ll also have to keep your lab stocked and running, which means you’ll nee to order supplies, upgrade your tools, and unlock new ingredients for the widest range of possible slimy […]

Steam Next Fest is nearly upon us once again, giving PC VR players a chance to try out a rash of upcoming SteamVR titles for a limited time.

Valve has confirmed a mega list of games coming to this year’s Steam Next Fest, which includes free demos running from June 9th – 16th. That list will go public soon, which you can find here next week.

While Valve gave us a heads up, we’ve been warned the list may change all the way up until Next […]

Meta has been flirting with retail for years now, however a Business Insider report maintains the company is finally looking to expand its retail footprint beyond its first and only brick-and-mortar location.

Citing an internal communication, the report maintains Meta is looking to hire retail staff and roll out more physical stores, which are thought to go beyond the sort of pop-up locations the company experimented with late last year.

It’s said the plans could mirror Apple’s retail strategy, although the […]

In a twist that promises to make the inevitable Palmer Luckey documentary even more dramatic, Palmer Luckey’s military tech company Anduril has now officially partnered with Meta to build “the world’s best AR and VR systems for the US military.”

Luckey founded Oculus in 2012, the company whose Rift headset was the spark that rebooted the modern era of VR. As a rapidly growing startup, Oculus attracted the attention of Meta (at the time Facebook), which acquired the company in 2014 for more than $2 […]

There are a ton of VR shooters out there aiming to replicate the dynamic of Valve’s classic team shooter Counter-Strike. Soon you’ll be able to play the real deal on Quest and Pico headsets though thanks to an unofficial port from modding group Team Beef.

Team Beef has brought a host of classic games to standalone VR platforms in the past, including Tomb Raider, Duke Nukem 3D, Prey, and Quake 4.

Now, the modding group says they’re currently working on an unofficial Quest and Pico 4 standalone port […]

Animal Company, the social VR game for Quest, just got a little more chaotic with the release of its new ‘Arena Mode’ update, finally bringing a shooting experience to one of Quest’s most popular free-to-play multiplayer games.

Separate from Animal Company’s classic extraction-style ‘Adventure Mode’, which was inspired by Lethal Company (2023), Arena Mode now adds a 6v6 shooting experience to the game for the first time.

Inspired by Minecraft’s ‘Bed Wars’ mode, Animal Company’s new Arena Mode gives each team a base to defend and […]

Saber Interactive, the studio behind PC and console shooter World War Z (2019), revealed the franchise is getting its first VR game, bringing the iconic swarm of zombies to Quest and SteamVR headsets on August 12th.

World War Z VR is set to be an entirely new entry in the series built from the ground-up for VR, something the studio says “faithfully reimagines the intense action of the original World War Z game.”

Unlike the PC and console game though, which featured a third-person view and had […]

Brand ambassador and referral programs are everywhere, aiming to drive engagement and sales through influencers and loyal fans alike. But last week, Pimax crossed a line, the company publicly admitted. It was discovered the PC VR headset company was secretly aiming to launch a program that offered rewards for verifiably positive forum posts—an ostensible attempt at astroturfing that quickly unraveled.

It all started with Reddit user ‘Mavgaming1’ last week, who leaked a private conversation initiated by Pimax through its official Discord. The proposition was […]

Cortopia Studios, the team behind GORN 2 (2025), announced it’s working on a ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ game which is slated to land on Quest and SteamVR headsets sometime next year.

We haven’t seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City in action yet, as Cortopia Studios and publisher Beyond Frames Entertainment only released a quick trailer announcing the titular ‘heroes in a half-shell’.

The studio did release a few screenshots though, showing off a few distinctly New York environments in addition to Master Splinter himself—all of it rendered […]

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Gexagon, the developer behind early access PC VR shooter sandbox Hard Bullet, announced the game’s physics-based madness is finally available on Quest 3.

Hard Bullet initially landed on Steam Early Access in 2020, bringing brutal gunfights and physics-based melee action to PC VR headsets—basically like the sandbox mode in Blade & Sorcery (2024), albeit with realistic guns and loads of John Wick-inspired criminal baddies as fodder.

Starting today, the studio has finally released Hard Bullet for Quest 3 and 3S. Check out the […]

VR indie Triangular Pixels announced its pioneering room-scale VR spy game Unseen Diplomacy (2016) is finally getting a sequel, and it’s coming to Quest 3 and SteamVR headsets this year.

Initially released in 2016 for PC VR headsets, Unseen Diplomacy was one of the first VR experiences to include a unique room-scale locomotion method that “redirected” the user by warping and manipulating the game’s various rooms around you.

Now, veteran VR developer Triangular Pixels announced it’s releasing sequel Unseen Diplomacy 2: Spy Harder sometime this […]