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Moss Developer Polyarc Closes After Nearly 12 Years, Ending a Distinctive VR Studio
Image: Polyarc Polyarc, the studio behind the Moss games, has announced that it is closing after nearly twelve years. The September 11 news is another painful development for virtual reality…
VR Games Showcase Reveals System Shock VR, High on Life VR and Total Chaos VR
Image: System Shock VR official Steam artwork Three very different games dominated the August 13 VR Games Showcase: the tense science-fiction horror of System Shock, the talking-gun comedy of High…
Valve’s Steam Frame Verified Standard Now Allows 72 FPS for Native VR Games
Image: Valve Valve has made an important change to the compatibility standard for its forthcoming Steam Frame headset: native virtual reality games can now qualify for Steam Frame Verified at…
Rec Room Shuts Down After a Decade and More Than 150 Million Players
Image: Rec Room (official announcement artwork) For millions of players, Rec Room was more than an app. It was a familiar meeting place: somewhere to play paintball, build a strange…
ROG XREAL R1 Gaming Glasses Open for Preorder at $849.99 With 240Hz Micro-OLED Displays
Image: ASUS Republic of Gamers Asus's Republic of Gamers brand and XREAL are now taking orders for the ROG XREAL R1, a pair of display glasses built specifically for gaming.…
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 Announced for SteamVR and Quest 3
Image: Rust Ltd (Steam store artwork) Ten years after a strangely named firearms sandbox became one of PC VR's most durable hits, its sequel is official. Rust Ltd has announced…
Cyberpunk 2077 Is Coming to VR, but Only at Zero Latency Arcades
Image: CD Projekt Red Night City is getting an official virtual reality version, though nobody will be playing it in their living room. CD Projekt Red and location-based VR operator…
Ubisoft Ends Game Development at Red Storm, the Studio Behind Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR
Image: Ubisoft One of the few large publishers still making ambitious VR games has stepped back further. Ubisoft is ending game development at Red Storm Entertainment, the North Carolina studio…
Meta at GDC: Quest Users Hit a Record in 2025 and More Than 100 Apps Passed $1 Million
Image: Meta "The rumors of the death of VR have been greatly exaggerated." That was the message Meta brought to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, where…
Meta Cuts About 10% of Reality Labs and Closes Three VR Game Studios
Image: Meta Three of the studios behind Meta's biggest Quest exclusives are being shut down this week as the company trims roughly a tenth of Reality Labs, the division responsible…