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‘Angry Birds Movie 2 VR’ Studio Raises $2M to Continue Development on AR/VR Games

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XR Games previously worked with Sony and Rovio to create its Angry Birds-themed VR title. “We The investment is earmarked to help the studio expand its games portfolio through new projects with Hollywood film studios and world-famous media and entertainment companies, the company says is a press release.

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XR News Round-Up: Grimlord, Mannequin, VAIL, Subside & More

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While this didn't confirm a release date for Sony's headset, the game targets a native 90Hz refresh rate and uses dynamic foveated rendering. Team Beef announced its unofficial Doom 3 VR port on Quest has a new update for 2005's Resurrection of Evil , and it's working on the Lost Mission DLC next. Patch 1.01

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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

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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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‘Shadow of the Colossus’ Creator Fumito Ueda is ‘Interested In Creating Something For VR’

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— it’s his 2005 masterpiece, Shadow of the Colossus , we’d most like to experience with a headset. He’s worked closely with Sony before, though there were obviously issues getting The Last Guardian out the door. Personally, we’d welcome an Ueda VR game with open arms.

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PSVR’s Psychonauts Launches February 21st, PS4 Pro Support Confirmed

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This isn’t the long-awaited sequel to the 2005 game (though that is on the way), but instead a VR-exclusive story set right after those events. The San Francisco-based company recently announced that Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin will be launching on PlayStation VR (PSVR) on February 21st.

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‘Heavy Rain’ Developer Quantic Dream Is Experimenting With VR

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It first tested the concept with 2005’s Fahrenheit (know as Indigo Prophecy in Europe), and then popularized it with PlayStation 3 exclusive, Heavy Rain. ” Given Quantic’s strong relationship with Sony, we’d expect any possible VR project to appear on PlayStation VR. You feel it. Your brain is tricked.”

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VR in 2016: HTC’s $799 Vive Brings Belief To VR Skeptics

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Sony arguably lost its footing as the console king when it launched the PlayStation 3 at $599 in 2005, and now here was a system that wanted considerably more cash for an experience that would still be foreign to many and a big financial risk for people to support.

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