‘Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR’ Review – AAA Without the Polish
Easily the most recognized IP to launch in a VR game this year, Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR is quite anticipated and has a lot riding on it. But as we know,…
Hands-On Review: YOGES Handle Attachments for Quest 2 Controllers
There are a lot of possible interactions in virtual reality. The standard Quest 2 controllers just don’t always cut it anymore. Fortunately, there’s a large market of accessories manufacturers making…
Alien Invasion AR FPS Review
What better place to play a game about an alien invasion in your backyard than in your backyard? When a game studio offered to stage an alien invasion right here…
Unveiling the Spacetop AR Laptop: AWE 2023 First Impressions
This year’s AWE 2023 was a remarkable testament to the accelerating pace of innovation in the field of augmented reality, hosting an unprecedented 6,000 guests and 300 exhibitors. Amidst the…
‘Synapse’ Review – A Power I’ve Been Waiting For
Synapse is the latest action game from veteran VR studio nDreams, built exclusively for PSVR 2. While you’ll do plenty of shooting, players are also equipped with a telekinetic superpower that…
‘Pixel Ripped 1978’ – Amping Up Nostalgia with Official Atari Backing
Virtual reality’s favorite nostalgia-fueled game-within-a-game is back, this time throwing you into a handful of reimagined Atari 2600 titles from the early ’80s. It’s another solid entry into the series,…
A Guided Demo of Nanome Came With a Free Chemistry Lesson From Founders
Before my life as a technology journalist, I worked in a university’s biomedical engineering research lab. Every now and then, in my current career, I encounter something that I wish…
A Week of VR Meditation With Mindway
Mindfulness can exist in the virtual world. Mindway is a VR app that promotes mindfulness – both in virtual worlds of unearthly peace and through lessons that you can carry…
‘Firmament’ Review – Complex Puzzles & Visual Richness Lacking a Native VR Touch
Firmament was created in the spirit of Myst, the studio’s genre-defining puzzle adventure which maroons you in a strange realm with some very imposing architecture, all of which houses a smorgasbord…
‘Another Fisherman’s Tale’ Review – A Captivating Sequel with More of Everything
We’re back for another dose of mind-bending puzzles à la Bob the Fisherman. The sequel offers up a longer, more emotionally complex story while packing in a ton of new puzzle…
‘Propagation: Paradise Hotel’ Review – A Pretty Ok Impression of ‘Resident Evil’
Propagation: Paradise Hotel offers some patently terrifying moments of horror, but between the ever-lingering danger of zombified attacks and a few giant bosses—making for a very Resident Evil-inspired experience—there’s a bit of…
“Metaversed”: A Book Review and Author Interview
Metaversed: See Beyond the Hype is the new book by Samantha G. Wolfe and Luis Bravo Martins introducing the metaverse stripped of its over-inflated, pie-in-the-sky expectation cloud built up by…