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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Half-Life: Alyx has finally been revealed with Valve promising a “full-length” Half-Life game “designed from the ground up for virtual reality.” But we’re also game developers at heart, and to be devoting ourselves to a VR game this ambitious is just as exciting.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

The developers quietly posted this message on the game’s Quest page , appended above its original description: “Multiplayer will be unavailable starting on December 1, 2023.” Alas, the game suffered from a host of issues at launch, which ranged from usability to gameplay polish, essentially rendering it a costly flop.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

The groundbreaking 2007 release of Crysis has long held its legendary status in the gaming world. Despite being a mod, this feels like a game built for VR. I felt as if the voice was actually coming from my in-game helmet. Launch the Game: The installer offers the option to create shortcuts. But can it run Crysis?"

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MARCH 16, 2017

Robo Recall , one of the best looking games available on a VR headset today, actually cost a lot less to produce than the rumored $10 million. It’s certainly a compliment to the small team at Epic Games responsible for the game that the notion of a $10 million production budget was so widely spread and accepted.

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JUNE 20, 2018

Offering a payload-based objective, much like the gametype in Team Fortress 2 (2007) or Overwatch (2016), you push the the cart on a track through the winding maze as an attacker, or defend the advances of the cart by pushing it backwards and running down the three-minute game clock.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game // Image credit: Ubisoft. When you program [speech] into a game, you may have 10 intents that you will need to handle, but the freedom of being able to use your own voice as the user makes it feel like you’ve got infinite things to ask. IT’S NOT ALL TALK.

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JULY 2, 2024

Despite launching in 2020, Half-Life: Alyx continues to be one of VR’s absolute best games. But in PC VR land, pretty much everyone who has wanted to play the game probably already has. But there’s another group of people out there with VR headsets who would love to play the game if given the chance.

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MARCH 24, 2017

The renewed appetite for space-based cockpit games over recent years has been partly fuelled by the resurgence of virtual reality technology, demonstrated by the success of Elite Dangerous , Star Citizen, and EVE: Valkyrie (2016). When you finish our playing game, I think you’ll be able to really fly a ship in space, let’s put it that way.”.

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JULY 26, 2022

Dr. Richard Bartle, co-author of text-based virtual world MUD1 and professor of game design at the University of Essex, believes that virtual worlds have long been overlooked in the current rush to build metaverse platforms. Lessons Big Tech Companies Can Learn from the Immersive Game of Second Life.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

One of my hopes for Crysis: Remastered was that it would be just as punishing on PCs today as it was when originally released in 2007. Now that the game has… Read more. You see if the RTX 3080 can run it, naturally.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Harmonix, the studio behind many rhythm game hits like Guitar Hero (2005) and Rock Band (2007) , today announced what they’re calling a “VR rhythm shooter” that looks—to be frank—pretty freaking awesome. SEE ALSO Valve Updated SteamVR Tracking Because 'Beat Saber' Players Were Too Fast.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Developed by Crypton Future Media , Miku was originally introduced in 2007 as a Vocaloid software voicebank in Japan. The group is composed of four female characters featured in Riot Games’ incredibly popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game, League of Legends — Ahri, Akali, Evelynn, and Kai’Sa.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Virtual reality rhythm game Synth Riders (2019) is getting a new music pack tomorrow called ‘Synthwave Essentials 2? ” The game is also getting three free songs, which will arrive in an update tomorrow for all supported platforms. which is set to feature the heavy-hitting English rock band Muse.

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MAY 15, 2017

Not only will it allow players to step into the world of Half-Life 2 in VR, it will also add motion controller support to make the game function much like a modern VR title. Luckily you can pick up all three, along with Portal (2007) for the entirely reasonable price of $20 via The Orange Box. Watch the trailer above.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Ostensibly, ‘m3gagluk’ was the first to hack the Vive controller to do this, making it play ‘Still Alive’ from Portal (2007). Lindenhof is known for his work on Climbey , the VR climbing game that pits you against difficult obstacles courses.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 21, 2022

For those who play video games, 2007 is often considered one of the best years of the medium. It was a year of bangers: Microsoft had Crackdown and Halo 3 , Nintendo took Super Mario to the Galaxy, Call of Duty blew the world open by going modern, and so on. It cannot be understated how much that year just kicked ass … Read more.

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JUNE 7, 2018

Ready at Dawn, the studio behind zero-g adventure Lone Echo (2017) and its companion multiplayer sports game Echo Arena (2017) , held a closed beta session with their upcoming Oculus Rift expansion Echo Combat last week. SEE ALSO One of Mobile VR's Best Games, 'Virtual Virtual Reality', Now Available on Rift.

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JUNE 7, 2018

Developer Ready at Dawn recently hosted a closed beta of the upcoming Echo Combat , an expansion to Echo Arena, which brings a brand new objective-based FPS arena game into the mix, complete with various weapons and abilities. We’ve got footage of a complete match so that you can see how it all goes down.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. [The We think VR will follow a similar path.

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DECEMBER 17, 2016

Seismic Games has acquired Los Angeles game developer Grue Games as a way to expand into augmented reality and virtual reality games. In addition to mobile and VR gaming, Seismic Games will work on a brand new location-based attraction, to be announced at a later date.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Carmack is a computer programmer best known for his work on the Quake , Doom , and Wolfenstein video games. VR Game of the Year. VR Game of the Year went to A Fisherman’s Tale by Innerspace and ARTE France. The Sony game was nominated for four DICE Awards this year, but failed to take home any of them.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

These facts have me considering jumping ship from Apple seriously for the first time since 2007. The company’s focus on the long game might be running out of time. Of course, Facebook and Samsung are also playing this game and we still have yet to see what they will announce at Oculus Connect 3 later this week.

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MAY 21, 2017

Pretty soon, real life will be stranger than fiction when it comes to bringing the great inventions of science fiction and games into technology. From 1998 to 2005, he served as games technical strategist at Intel. Grossman straddles the lines between books and games, as he is both a novelist and game designer.

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JULY 19, 2016

Among more than 9,000 games on Steam, Valve’s VR title The Lab is heading the platform’s list of top rated games. For many with the HTC Vive, the game has become a go-to starting point to introduce friends and family to VR thanks to its polish and breadth of experiences.

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JULY 8, 2024

The trailer premiered at the Gran Turismo 2024 World Series in Montreal (credit to Push Square ), revealing many new features coming to the game, including physics updates, a new track, and a series of additional cars. Starting with the cars, update 1.49

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JULY 22, 2019

Think of it like the iPhone 1 in 2007 before the App Store. The wave of apps that follows will include everything from guided navigation and local discovery to gaming and meditation. Bose is already there , given the Bose AR developer platform.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Developers will be making game balance changes throughout the weekend based on community feedback, and provide these at incremental hotfixes. SEE ALSO The 5 Best Free Games on Oculus Rift.

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JULY 5, 2016

At the time of this writing, more than 100 Steam reviewers gave the game a thumbs up, making for a perfect ‘100% positive’ aggregate rating. And while neither game offers a perfect representation of their real world counterparts, the fun to be had is both very real, and very dependent on the shared nature of the experience.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Today we got exclusive new footage of the Crossfire: Sierra Squad Realism Mode, one of the included game modes available at launch. Crossfire is a long-running first-person shooter franchise that began with the original Crossfire on Windows in 2007. Sierra Squad will mark the franchise's first foray into VR.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A variety of computer mice built from 1985 to 2007 (Image by Sandstein, from Wikipedia) The mouse is one of the most simple controllers and we use it every day when we are at our computer. Like, we return home and we wear some controllers to play for instance action games.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games and projects for years now through Oculus Studios. Tim Sweeney of Epic Games, however, is clearing some of that mystery up in his typical, outspoken fashion. “I n 2006, a world class Triple A game cost 10-20 million to produce now they’ll cost up to 100 million.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2024

O3DE initially began as Amazon Lumberyard , built on top of the CryEngine game platform technology. A couple of empty city builds, some robotics simulations, and a couple of game demos. Unreal, a high-end game development engine, is free if you have less than $1 million in annual revenues. What is O3DE? Is OpenSim losing steam?

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AUGUST 31, 2018

Torn is a single player adventure game that’s inspired by arguably the greatest sci-fi television of all time, The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. All in all, the game fared very well considering the high quality of textures, lighting effects, and physics-based objects such as wafting curtains. Developer: Aspyr Studio.

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JUNE 16, 2017

But nine out of ten companies will not win their markets, especially if everyone follows the same game plan. The iPhone revolution of 2007 showed us that enterprise/consumer was not an appropriate market segmentation for phones. This is perfectly logical advice and nine out of ten experts would no doubt prescribe this strategy.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To build out the software ecosystem, Qualcomm lined up a wide range of partners, including Epic Games’s Unreal Engine, Niantic’s Lightship platform, Unity, Viacom CBS and others. Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile U.S. are also partnering with Qualcomm to support startups that use Snapdragon Spaces through the hubraum program.

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JULY 31, 2016

If I was in an audience and the speaker asked who felt like they considered themselves a “Kidult” (kid + adult = kidult), my Ghostbusters loving, game playing, Simpsons DVD owning hand would have to go up. That originally was the wheelhouse for Seedling, which started in New Zealand in 2007. Can’t say it was. Yeah buddy.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

That could cause OpenSim users to jump right back, former Second Life creator since 2007 and Virtual Lisbon owner Carlos Loff told Hypergrid Business. ” Loff has been a creator in Second Life since 2007 before moving to OpenSim but, like many OpenSim users, still has an account in Second Life and visits occasionally. Carlos Loff.

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