While Sony’s PlayStation VR, Facebook’s Oculus Rift, and the HTC Vive have brought virtual reality home, there are still some people who can’t afford the price of this technology or who are just waiting for VR to improve. Either way, this has opened up new business opportunities for the 21st century arcade. For instance, companies...
The Force remains strong at Electronic Arts. The game company continues to develop brand new adventures in the official Star Wars canon through its licensing agreement with Disney-owned Lucasfilm. The latest game, Star Wars Battlefront 2, will ship Nov. 17 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and introduce a full single-player campaign...
Gnomes and Goblins may offer audiences a lush world of fantasy. But its creatures -- conjured by none other than Hollywood director Jon Favreau -- won’t be appearing in a multiplex. Instead, Favreau has teamed up with tech startup Wevr to create an exclusive virtual reality experience for the HTC Vive.
The game’s development will...
This summer the star of the Kick-Ass films and Agent Carter is taking the action directly to fans. In the virtual reality short film from The Rogue Initiative director Ilya Rozhkov, actress Lyndsy Fonseca plays Alex Emerson, the wife of a secret agent who’s been kidnapped and is under mind control. The twist is that the entire...
Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings franchise have something new to look forward to. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and developer Monolith Productions are bringing Middle-Earth: Shadow of War to Xbox One, Project Scorpio, Windows 10 PC, PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro on October 10. The sequel to the critical and...
