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[ad_1] Image: Traveler’s Tales/Warner Bros. Be thankful for Moving Out, Kingdom Two Crowns Microsoft found another Lego video game to toss into November’s Games With Gold offerings. 2012’s Lego Batman 2 DC Super Heroes for Xbox 360, available Nov. 16 to Nov. 30,...

[ad_1] Facebook today announced that it’s changing its name to Meta. The rebrand comes as the the company shifts its primary focus toward building the metaverse and the XR products that will support it. The Oculus brand will be phased out, with the Quest product...

[ad_1] Image: Riot Games Enemy is the second song the band has done for Riot Arcane, Netflix’s animated League of Legends series, has a new music video that includes an original song from Imagine Dragons and JID. The “Enemy” video was released on Tuesday ahead of the...

[ad_1] The latest version of Ultraleap’s hand-tracking tech is finally available today on Windows for use with the Leap Motion Controller accessory and promises to improve two-handed interactions, speed, and robustness. The release includes a demo experience...

[ad_1] Image: Chris Shehan/Boom Studios The comic spins out of the hit Something is Killing the Children Just in time for Halloween, the monster hunting universe of Something Is Killing the Children expands with House Of Slaughter, one of the most anticipated releases...

[ad_1] Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife, the single-player horror-adventure set in the storied ‘World of Darkness’ universe, is finally set to launch on PSVR October 27th, delivering frights, intrigue, and plenty of opportunity for Alien: Isolation-style...

[ad_1] The long-running horror star has a new show, but exhibits all the traits of classic creatures This October, the Criterion Channel is showcasing a number of cherry-picked Universal horror movies from the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, highlighting the fact that...

[ad_1] In the company’s Q3 2021 earnings call Facebook today said it expects its XR investments this year to top $10 billion, and advised investors that it plans to spend even more than that in subsequent years. Facebook’s top brass believe so deeply that...

[ad_1] There are two basic ideas at the heart of virtually all horror tropes, and we’re never going to escape them Every genre of story has its standing tropes. Westerns have black hats and white hats, face-offs between lone gunmen standing in the middle of otherwise...

[ad_1] Spacefolk City is a city building simulator that aims to get you plonking down a dense city landscape in free-floating space. It launches today on the Oculus Store for Quest and Rift, with a release on SteamVR headsets slated for sometime next month. Update...

[ad_1] Image: Netflix Season 2 continues to give them compelling arcs and make them complex characters All-ages media tends to dodge around depicting meaningful parental figures. In some cases they’re totally absent from the story. In others — like the school-set...

[ad_1] Fan favorite Physics-based VR melee fighter Blade & Sorcery is still going strong nearly two and a half years after its initial early access release. Back in June, we got our first peek at the next major development which is slated to expand beyond the...

[ad_1] Image: Netflix Her improbable nose was much bigger at one point: ‘We had such a fight about that!’ Netflix’s animated series Maya and the Three is a sweeping fantasy epic set in a Mesoamerican-inspired world. Creators and husband-wife team Jorge Gutiérrez and...

[ad_1] Unplugged is like Guitar Hero, although instead of picking up a dedicated peripheral and jamming away, it relies on Quest’s native hand-tracking to let you shred on an air guitar without controllers. It’s a fun idea that can work really well at...

[ad_1] Photo: Lionsgate, 3 Arts Entertainment, Ubisoft Film & Television/Apple Season 3 will go into development later this year Apple TV Plus announced that Mythic Quest, the workplace comedy about a game development company, will get two more seasons. Mythic...

[ad_1] HP announced today that it’s launching an updated version of its Reverb G2 headset in the US that brings improvements to controller tracking, eye-relief, and AMD compatibility. Alongside the headset’s improvements, changes to the Mixed Reality...

[ad_1] Image: sunday.nobody/TikTok Then hangs it, like the work of art it is They say a picture is worth a thousand words — and one TikToker made a picture with over a thousand. Specifically from the Oscar-winning animated classic Shrek. In fact, TikToker...

[ad_1] Resident Evil 4 for Oculus Quest 2 definitely shows its age—it would be impossible not to given its lineage as a groundbreaking survival horror game initially launched on GameCube in 2005. Despite leaning on what have now become well-worn gaming tropes, RE4 for...

[ad_1] Image: Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli The Academy Museum is showing the first retrospective of his work in North America Hayao Miyazaki’s films have been the cornerstone of my love for animation, and a warm blanket to return to when things get difficult. I can...

[ad_1] Little Cities is an upcoming city creation game for Quest that looks to bring much of the same city simulator flair to VR of prolific series such as Cities: Skylines and Sim City. Little Cities is currently under development by UK-based studio Purple Yonder,...

[ad_1] Splinter Cell hero Sam Fisher, in 2013’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. | Image: Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft Is Ubisoft finally listening to Tom Clancy fans? A mainline console and PC title for Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell series is in development, reports...

[ad_1] While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest...

[ad_1] Image: Rob Zombie/Instagram Jeff Daniel Phillips, Sheri Moon Zombie, and Daniel Roebuck step into 1313 Mockingbird Lane Rob Zombie’s reboot of The Munsters finally has a cast, just in time for the Halloween season. Zombie took to his Instagram on Monday morning...

[ad_1] Magic Leap just gave us the first glimpse of its Magic Leap 2 AR headset earlier this week. Despite a consumer-focused start, the company has firmly pivoted into the enterprise segment. Comments from the CEO suggest there will be no consumer headset from Magic...

[ad_1] Image: Fox Original actor Mike Henry stepped down from the role in 2020 “I was completely baffled,” Arif Zahir says, describing his reaction to receiving some genuinely life-changing news from Fox Television. “I got a call, sent it to voicemail because I...

[ad_1] Pimax announced its holding a product event on October 25th that will introduce a next-gen VR headset, something that the company promises will be “several generations ahead of anything currently on the market.” The event, dubbed Frontier 2021, was...

[ad_1] “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.” | Analogue Finally Pocket Gets Access (to software emulation’s best feature) Analogue, the boutique retro console manufacturer, has made a tradition out of pinning announcements to today’s date, October 16. First...

[ad_1] Quest 2 was launched this week one year ago. To celebrate, Oculus has put together five discounted game bundles alongside nearly 30 other Quest games on sale. It’s hard to believe its only been a year since Quest 2 launched, but here we are. The headset...

[ad_1] Folks, I’m ready to stretch Prep your sweat bands and yoga mats. Nintendo will add community stretching to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Frankly, it’s adorable, and something I never knew I needed. It’s one of many features being added to New Horizons with its...

[ad_1] Seemingly in an effort to keep the spotlight during an increasingly hot month of VR announcements, Facebook teased a look at two new XR headset prototypes just a day after an apparent leak of HTC’s upcoming Vive Flow headset. Update (October 14th, 2021):...