Oculus Rift

Oculus Rift headlines

• Oculus Rift with Touch down to its lowest price yet

  The headset that kicked off a whole wave of VR businesses and corporation competition, the Oculus Rift, is down to its lowest price since launch, at least in the UK and US territories.

• Eve: Valkyrie Warzone will be playable without a VR headset next month

  The Eve: Valkyrie Warzone update will bring new content next month, and add one big feature to make the game accessible to more players.

• Lone Echo proves that solo story-driven games can work brilliantly in VR

  VR is a fun gimmick, but it’s incredibly difficult to make it feel like more than that.

• This week's best gaming deals: New Humble Bundle, PS Plus, Crash Bandicoot, and more

  Prime Day may have been the main event for deals this week, but don’t count out the rest of the internet yet. We’ve still got a batch of gaming and tech offers from around the web to show off. So let’s go ahead and do just that.

• Oculus Rift and Touch Controllers bundle reduced to $400/£400 for a limited time

  Oculus is slashing $200/£200 off the price of the Rift and Touch bundle for a limited timed.

• 3 sci-fi game announces you missed during Ubisoft's presser

  Ubisoft has had a busy E3 2017. Check out these games you might have missed or indeed deliberately ignored.

• Star Trek: Bridge Crew review - the fantasy of commanding a starship has to be earned

  VR and fan service done right.

• Star Trek Bridge Crew is out now, and HTC is so confident in this VR gateway it's bundling the game with new Vive units

  Star Trek Bridge Crew lets you live out some of your most secret, cherished dreams.

• The Rick and Morty VR game is out now if you like your Job Simulator even more off the wall than usual

  Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality doesn’t take itself seriously – surprise surprise.

• Rick and Morty in VR, or a Rick mod for GTA 5? The choice is simple - both

  If you’re a Rick and Morty fan, but aren’t interested in VR, the closest you’ll get to a non-mobile title for the series – for now – is a mod which adds Rick to GTA 5.

• Sparc is the type of game that VR desperately needs more of

  Hands-on with CCP’s new ball-dodging ‘v-sport’ – it’s a good’un.

• Batman: Arkham VR, one of the best games on PSVR, is coming to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive this month

  Batman: Arkham VR will become available for the two other VR headsets in just a couple of weeks.

• John Carmack is suing Zenimax for $22 million

  John Carmack is seemingly not done with Zenimax just yet.

• Oculus Rift is now the cheaper premium VR headset on PC, thanks to a new price cut

  Oculus Rift and the Touch controllers are now more affordable than the competition.

• Assassin's Creed: Da Vinci's Workshop is a student VR project but there's no plans for a commercial release

  Update: Assassin’s Creed: Da Vinci’s Workshop is a collaboration between students and Ubisoft.

• "I never tried to hide or wipe any evidence", expert witness testimony "ridiculous": John Carmack responds to Zenimax

  Oculus CTO John Carmack has fired back after Zenimax detailed the former Id Software boss’s alleged misconduct.

• Zenimax may seek an injunction to halt Oculus Rift sales in wake of broken NDA verdict, details evidence of Oculus's alleged theft

  Oculus Rift faces an uncertain future, and the lawyers aren’t done tusslin’ yet.

• Elite Dangerous's co-op multicrew feature goes into beta next month - with VR support and an avatar customisation tool

  Elite Dangerous is getting closer and closer to your space fantasies.

• VR poster child Job Simulator has pulled $3M in sales so far

  Job Simulator made a stack of money which will be handy when robots eventually put us all out of ours.