For this second week of the year, VR news continues to make headlines. On the hardware side, it is still the HTC VIVE XR Elite that piques the curiosity of the public, while on the software side, if the releases have been few, they are varied and surprising.
What’s new on PC in VR this week?
The outputs on SteamVR are Take Care VRa low-cost FPS with zombies to kill, and Karakuri Kengeki a fighting game with big swords at €28.99. On Viveportno releases but updates for First Person Tennis: The Real Tennis Simulator, Cosmodread and Phasmophobia. On theOculus Rift Storeit is Checkers, a game combining time, space and checkers at €14.99 which has made its appearance. Please note, this title is available in theAppLab of Meta since April 2022 at €16.99. You will find the names of the 5 games offered and the 83 official titles for the release of the HTC VIVE XR Elite in our dedicated article here.
What’s new on Pico Store?
The catalog of Pico Store hosts two more games and these are Cellar Digger 2 and 1976: Back to Midway. The first is a classic reworked with VR sauce and unfortunately does not deserve too much attention, while the second is a shoot ’em up vertical related to the great classic 1941. A must have for who loves the genre.
And in the Meta Quest Store?
As every week, you will find the complete list of updates on our dedicated article Meta Quest Store, releases of the week. Whether MLK: Now is the Time (Martin Luther King) is an excellent free experience, it is in English which will limit its interest to those who speak this language. For GRID (29.99 €), it’s more complicated as this port blows the best as well as the worst. It offers identical content, or almost, to the original version on PC and consoles but graphics at the level of PlayStation 2, or even less. You will find here our first impressions captured during our LIVE Youtube here waiting for our final full test..
Porting the Razer 3D Engine
The team Beefknown for porting old games to virtual reality (Doom 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake III Arena…) returns to the charge by announcing its new success, the porting of the engine Razerwhich at the time fitted our Duke Nukem 3D and others Shadow Warrior. The perfect opportunity to dive back into it. The game is not officially released yet, it will still take a little patience before you can enjoy it.
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