Back in March 2015 we reported on a VR game heading to the HTC Vive called The Gallery: Six Elements. This game is currently being developed by Cloudhead Games who today announced that their new Blink Locomotion Technology will be debuting in another virtual reality game in The Gallery franchise once it is released.
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Handy Games has quietly released a game for Google Cardboard called Hidden Temple – VR Adventure, which is sort of a suitable name considering how quiet of a release this was. The goal of this game is to escape from a temple before you die in it, preferably with some treasure as well.
Break a Brick by CrazyBunch landed onto Google Play a couple of days ago and while at first you may just think to yourself that it’s another brick breaking game, you would only be partially correct. While the breaking of bricks does happen, that’s about where the similarities end with other brick breaking puzzle games.
So far we have had some decent support regarding Virtual Reality and Android devices announced. Initially Oculus Rift announced Android support before Facebook bought them out, that hasn’t changed as far as we know. HTC and Valve are working on the HTC Re Vive VR headset which no doubt will get Android support if it doesn’t have it already. Now Razer has announced that their open Virtual Reality platform, called OSVR, will come with compatibility for Android devices.
Narcosis began as a school project at ENJMIN, a prestigious videogame school in France and is now being developed by Honor Code. With that as its beginning, it now appears to be shaping up into something with the potential to be seriously cool. In Narcosis, players assume the role of an industrial diver, who gets separated from his fellow diver.
Oculus Rift held their Pre-E3 press event moments ago, officially announcing the Oculus Rift as an official commercial product. Along with this announcement were some other surprising announcements made on stage, including the fact that the Oculus Rift headset will come bundled with an Xbox One controller and adapter, as well as working natively with Windows 10 and allowing for Xbox One game streaming to the headset.
Oculus Rift is hosting their E3 2015 press event a bit early, since E3 doesn’t start until next week. The event will introduce the Oculus Rifts’ new branding/logo as well as a website with a countdown clock, most likely counting down till the commercial release of the Oculus Rift, something a lot of people have been waiting for.
ARK: Survival Evolved is a new game on PC that was just released via Steam Early Access, so the game is still being developed but it is playable as an early access title. Those people who are playing it right now do have to deal with all that comes with being an early access game. However, future plans for ARK: Survival Evovled include support for Virtual Reality via the Oculus Rift or Sony’s Project Morpheus.
Arizona Sunshine is a new “room-scale” zombie shooter slated for release later this year for HTC upcoming VR hearset called Vive. This game is being made specifically for Virtual Reality gaming, which is why it is being labeled as room-scale, because it will take full advantage of the 15 ft. by 15 ft tracking space.
Back near the end of March 2015 we reported on HTC and the fact that they would be offering developers a chance to apply for a free Vive Developer Edition virtual reality headset which they can use to develop games for. The only thing that developers were waiting for was to have HTC launch their official website that developers would be using to sign-up for the headset.