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Dario Casali, a level designer at Valve, told Engadget that " started out as an exploration of VR rather than saying we're going to just work with Half-Life IP. After we shipped The Lab and we were working on the Vive, we decided we were going to push into the…

Virtual reality has been two years away from mainstream adoption for the past six years. In that time, huge companies have made big VR bets only to walk away, countless VR startups have faded or flared out and investment has slowed significantly. Building an attractive VR product for large enterprises…

If you've already got a HTC Vive, you might be in two minds about forking out for the complete Cosmos Elite bundle. If you've got base stations and controllers already, why drop dollars on more? But HTC has you covered. In the coming weeks, it will be launching a headset-only…

Asics, the Japanese footwear company, would have liked to put on a show to demonstrate its new sneakers to the world. But, with things as they are, opted to embrace technology to show off its new gear. So, rather than coaxing people over to its Japan HQ for a show,…

VR and escape rooms go together like peanut butter and the chocolate I've run out of. Fireproof Games VR gaming is getting a needed boost, just when we could use it most. First, Valve released the stunning Half-Life: Alyx. Now, there's The Room: A Dark Matter, too. I've spent years playing The…

Half-Life: Alyx may have been built from the ground up to support Valve’s super expensive Index headset, but as you may have seen from my Half-Life: Alyx PC requirements and VR headset specs article, you can actually play it on any VR headset that supports SteamVR, including the HTC Vive,…

Home • PC Game News • Half-Life: Alyx • For a few years, VR seemed like a peripheral, literally and figuratively. Now that Half-Life: Alyx is front and center in our minds, folks are collectively adjusting to getting their heads around the biggest VR release—what—ever? In Alyx’s first update, Valve…

Students who used immersive virtual reality (VR) did not learn significantly better than those who used two more traditional forms of learning, but they vastly preferred the VR to computer-simulated and hands-on methods, a new Cornell study has found. "We didn't know exactly what we were going to see," said…

Image: ValveSteamedSteamedSteamed is dedicated to all things in and around Valve’s PC gaming service.In truth, the Half-Life series has always had two main characters: Gordon Freeman and his crowbar. The nondescript piece of curved metal is one of the best-known pieces of iconography in all of gaming. And yet, in…

Back in 2017, head honcho Gabe Newell revealed Valve were working on “three full VR games”. We got one of them last night. Half-Life: Alyx is very good, according to Graham’s Half-Life: Alyx review, but it seems the other two have gone missing. According to Valve designer Greg Coomer, “there…