Virtual & Augmented Reality news

AWE USA 2025 has announced a new Gaming Hub program that expands the event’s focus and programming to include XR game development and publishing.As far as industry events go, AWE USA has become our must-attend XR event of the year. This year it’s being held June 10–12 in Long Beach, CA. FYI, the last chance to get the most affordable tickets is March 13th! As the Premier Media Partner of this year’s event, we are offering an exclusive 20% discount on ticket

During the VR Games Showcase today, Patient 8 Games announced it’s bringing its long-awaited sci-fi action horror game Memoreum to Quest in September.Patient 8 Games is best known for its hit Half Life: Alyx mod, ‘Return to Rapture’, which mashed up Bioshock levels with Half-Life lore.
Ever since we heard about how the studio was aiming to similarly recreate Dead Space in Half-Life: Alyx mod, but later pivoted to launch it as a standalone title built in Unit

Flat2VR Studios today showed off some fresh gameplay footage of Roboquest VR, its upcoming port of the titular fast-paced roguelite shooter.Like the original flatscreen Roboquest (2023) from RyseUp Studios, Flat2VR also confirmed Roboquest VR will similarly feature two-player co-op in addition to single player campaign.
Set in a vibrant, cel-shaded world, Roboquest throws players into procedurally generated levels filled with hordes of robotic enemies. Players take on the role of a Gua

Hitman World of Assassination is coming to PSVR 2, and we just got a fresh look at the action during the VR Games Showcase today, showing off some promising graphics that (hopefully) eclipses the series’ disastrous launch on Quest.Hitman World of Assassination—the bundle including HITMAN 1, HITMAN 2 and HITMAN 3—was initially supposed to arrive on PSVR 2 in December, although developer IO Interactive delayed the release to March 27th, 2025—likely for good reason.
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Windlands studio Psytec Games today unveiled its first new project in seven years, a co-op adventurer platformer called Titan Isles.The game looks to be somewhat of a spiritual successor to Windlands 2 (2018), the studio’s most recent game, letting co-op teams take on rope-swinging parkour challenges and fight off monsters of all shapes and sizes—bosses included.
Okay, maybe ‘spiritual successor’ isn’t the right term—it is a brand new game that leverages

Flat2VR Studios, the team dedicated to porting flatscreen games to VR headsets, announced it has a fresh slate of four games getting the official flat-to-VR treatment.The studio announced during the VR Games Showcase today that it’s bringing official VR versions of Out of Sight, Surviving Mars, and Postal 2 to VR for the first time. Additionally, Flat2VR says it’s also porting Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok to PSVR 2.
Out of Sight (Quest, PSVR 2, PC VR)
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VR pet simulator Stay: Forever Home is officially coming to Quest in April, bringing its loveable canine companion ‘Ember’ to both virtual and mixed reality. 
Developer Windup Minds says Stay: Forever Home blends AR, VR, and unscripted AI to create a realistic companion that is unique to each player, resulting in a game that “loves you back.”
Here’s how the studio describes Ember, the star of the show:
A magical friend – who won’t dig

Slender: The Arrival (2013), the hit flatscreen game that pits you against the legendary Slender Man, is releasing on all major VR platforms this spring, coming alongside a fresh (and spine-tingling) new gameplay video.As revealed during the VR Games Showcase today, the game’s original developer Blue Isle Studios is tooling the game for VR, coming to Quest, PSVR 2, and SteamVR headsets this spring.
It’s not going to be a 1:1 port either, as Blue Isle calls the new VR v

Alta, the studio behind open-world VRRPG A Township Tale (2021), revealed during the VR Games Showcase today more about its next VR game, a multiplayer dungeon-crawler called Reave.Previously revealed last year as ‘Project 2’, we now know the game is not only leaning into PvE, but also throwing in PvP for good measure, making for some deadly trips into its loot-filled dungeons.
As an extraction-based game, Reave tasks you with nabbing loot and extracting back

Triangle Factory, the studio behind team shooter Breachers, today revealed its next VR game: Forefront, a multiplayer shooter inspired by the Battlefield series.The game, which supports up to 32 players, will offer vehicles of all types, including land, air and sea, letting you traverse large-scale maps for the sort of large, dynamic encounters you rarely see in VR. The studio also promises an arsenal of new weapons, vehicles, gadgets, and player classes.
Here’s how Triangle Factory d